CDF

1. IDENTITY
- The qualities, beliefs, etc, that makes a particular person or group different from
others.
- The distinguish character or personality of an individual.
SELF
- The person that someone normally truly is.
- The entire person of an individual.
- Personality.
PERSONALITY
- The individual’s patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
SOCIAL FACTOR
- Refers to the influence of significant people in one’s life.
PERSON VOLITION FACTOR
- Refers to the inclination of a person to form and construct a specific identity that will
set him apart from others.
HEREDITARY FACTOR
- A biological process by which a certain traits and characteristics are passed from
generation to another.
- NATURE
- Genes and hereditary factors.
- Physical appearance.
- Personality characteristics.
- NURTURE
- Environmental variables.
- Childhood experiences.
- How we were raised.
- Social relationships.
- Surrounding culture.
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR
- Is broadly includes the physical and communal elements present in everyday
surroundings and is invariably dealt with individuals in a specific geographical region
or area.
SELF AWARENESS
- AUTOCONOCIMIENTO
- Is the conscious knowledge and understanding of one’s own character, emotions,
motivation, and values.
- Involves introspection and recognition of personal strengths, weakness, and patterns
of behavior.
- Enables individuals to make informed decisions, manage emotions effectively, and
negative interpersonal relationships with empathy.

2. - A foundational aspect of emotional intelligence and personal growth, facilitating a
deeper understanding of one’s identity and contributing to a more fulfilling and
purposeful life.
- Continuous self-reflection and mindfulness practices are key components developing
and maintaining autoconocimiento.
SELF ESTEEM
- The belief and confidence in your own ability and value.
- Includes feelings of competence, identity, a sense of belonging, a feeling of security
and self-confidence.
- It is important to build a healthy self-esteem to be happy.
- People with a healthy self-esteem are able to accept their strengths and
weaknesses, to express their needs, to accept a compliment and they are able to say
no.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
- An understanding of one’s own unique ways of being, including physical
characteristics, personality traits, and psychological attributes.
- An awareness of the cognitive, affective, and executive aspects of the self that give
meaning to life patterns, assign mental images, and guide motivational behavior.
- Dynamic and evolving, continuously being refined over time.
- The content, nature, and function of self-knowledge represent personality significant
abstractions that embody one’s life experience.
- Constructed by the individual and shaped by social, cultural, contextual, and
environmental influences.
SELF-PERFECTION
- Process of continuously striving to improve oneself in various aspects of life, such as
personal development, skills, character, and well-being.
- Involves setting goals for self-improvement, working towards achieving them, and
reflecting on personal growth.
COGNITIVE SELF
- Relating to or involving conscious intellectual activity.
AFFECTIVE SELF
- Relating to or arising from feelings influenced by emotion.
EMOTIONS
- Physical states that arise as a response to external stimuli.
- Aroused before feelings.
- Physical states.
- Can be observed through the physical reaction.
FEELINGS
- Mental associations and reactions to emotions.
- Caused by emotions.
- Mental associations and reactions.

3. - Can be hidden.
PHILOSOPHER
- Greek: “PHILOSOPHOS” (lover of wisdom).
- Intellectual person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment.
- Study about knowledge, truth, and the nature and meaning of life.
- Systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about
existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language.
- PLATO, ARISTOTLE, and SOCRATES.
PRE-SOCRATIC ERA
CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
- Main idea in this dialogue is that the truth can be distinguished in two forms:
- METAPHYSICAL (mind)
- PHYSICAL (body)
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE SELF:
● SOCRATES:
- Every Man is Dualistic, with Body and Soul
- BODY
- All individuals have imperfect and impermanent aspects.
- MIND
- Perfect and permanent aspects.
- SOUL
- A mental thing and is permanent.
- Exists and manifests in the body today but separates when the body leaves
the face of the Earth.
- Reason why there is a belief that one continues to be present even after
death.
- Can exist even without the physical body.
● PLATO
- Three concepts of the soul:
- RATIONAL SOUL
- Governs reason and intellect.
- SPIRITED SOUL
- Takes charge of emotions.
- APPETITIVE SOUL
- Basic human desires.
- Three conflicting elements:
- PASSIONS
- INTELLECT
- WILL
- Most people live life allowing the passions, intellect and will to be in conflict with one
another.
- Ideal living is when the INTELLECT controls the PASSIONS through the WILL.