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    The document discusses different philosophers' views on the nature of the self throughout history. It covers perspectives from the ancient Greeks like Plato who saw the self as consisting of body, rational soul, spirited soul and appetitive soul. It also discusses views of philosophers like Descartes, Hume, Kant, Ryle and Merleau-Ponty. In general it examines the debate around whether the self is something distinct from the body like the soul or mind, or if it is intertwined with physical and lived experiences.

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    The Self From Various Philosophical Perspective

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    The document discusses different philosophers' views on the nature of the self throughout history. It covers perspectives from the ancient Greeks like Plato who saw the self as consisting of body, rational soul, spirited soul and appetitive soul. It also discusses views of philosophers like Descartes, Hume, Kant, Ryle and Merleau-Ponty. In general it examines the debate around whether the self is something distinct from the body like the soul or mind, or if it is intertwined with physical and lived experiences.

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    The debate shifted into another locus of discussion during the advent of social sciences.

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    The document discusses different philosophers' views on the nature of the self throughout history. It covers perspectives from the ancient Greeks like Plato who saw the self as consisting of body, rational soul, spirited soul and appetitive soul. It also discusses views of philosophers like Descartes, Hume, Kant, Ryle and Merleau-Ponty. In general it examines the debate around whether the self is something distinct from the body like the soul or mind, or if it is intertwined with physical and lived experiences.

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    Lesson 1

     Before we even had to be in any formal


    institution of learning, among the many things
    that we were first taught as kids is to articulate
    and write our names.
     Human beings attach names that are
    meaningful to birthed progenies because
    names are supposed to designate us in the
    world.
     Our names represent who we are.
     Our names signify us. Death cannot even stop
    this bond between the person and her name.
     A name is not the person itself no matter how
    intimately bound it is with the bearer. It is only
    a signifier.
     The self is thought to be something else than
    the name.(to be discovered)
     The history of philosophy is replete with men
    and women who inquired into the
    fundamental nature of self along with the
    question of the primary substratum that
    defines the multiplicity of things in this world.
     The Greeks were the ones who seriously
    questioned myths and moved away from them
    to understand reality and respond to perennial
    questions of curiosity, including the question of
    the self. (mythos vs. Logos)
     Logos – rationale of things, rational, logical
    explanation of nature.
     There is something constant in nature beneath
    or behind the appearance of change.
     There is this unchanging principle in nature.
     Pre- Socratics

     Arché – multiplicity of things in the


    world.

     Thales , Pythagoras , Parmenides,


    Heraclitus, and Empedocles.
     He was the first philosopher
    engaged in systematic questioning
    about the self.
     The true task of the philosopher is to
    know oneself.
     Plato claimed in his dialogs that
    Socrates affirmed that the
    unexamined life is not worth living.
    “ Every man is compose of body and
    soul”.

    Body Soul

    -imperfect -perfect
    -impermanent -permanent
     Rational soul
    -forged by human reason and intellect has to
    govern the affairs of person.

     Spirited soul
    - in charge of emotions

     Appetitive soul
    - in charge of base desires.
    Ancient view of Newfound Doctrine of
    Plato Christianity

    The soul is to anticipate


    The body is bound to living eternally of
    die on Earth. spiritual bliss communion
    with God.
     Most eminent thirteenth century scholar.

    Two parts of man

    Matter or Hyle Form or Morphe


     Matter or Hyle
    - common stuff that makes up everything in the
    universe.

     Form or morphe
    - Essence of a substance or a thing.

    To Aquinas , the soul is what animates the


    body; it is what makes us humans.
     Father of Modern Philosophy, concieved of the
    human person as having a body and a mind.

     cogito ergo sum, “ I think therefore, I am”.

     The self is also a combination of two distinct


    entities:
    cogito – the thing that thinks, which is
    the MIND.
    extenza - or extension of the mind
    which is the BODY.
     Scottish philosopher. An empiricist
    who believes that one can know
    only what comes from the senses
    and experience.

    Experience

    Impressions Ideas
     Self , according to Hume , is
    simply “ a bundle or collection of
    different perceptions, which
    succeed each other with an
    inconceivable rapidity, and are
    in perpetual flux and
    movement.” (Hume and
    Steinberg 1992)
    To Kant, there is necessarily a
    mind that organizes the
    impressions that men get from
    the external world.
    Example: time and space are ideas
    that one cannot find in the world
    but is built in our mind.

    Apparatusses of mind.
     Ryle solves the mind-body
    dichotomy that has been running
    long time in the history of
    thought by blatantly denying the
    concept of an internal, non-
    physical self.
    Ryle suggest that the “self” is not
    an entity one can locate and
    analyze but simply the
    convenient name that people use
    to refer to all the behaviours that
    the people make.
     the mind and body are
    intertwined that they cannot be
    separated from one another.

     The living body , his thoughts,


    emotions , and experiences are
    all one.

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