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Overview of Key Philosophers' Ideas

This document summarizes key philosophers and their views on the self: 1) Socrates believed that knowing oneself was a prerequisite for virtue and that we should strive for knowledge. Plato viewed the self as having rational, spiritual, and appetitive components. 2) David Hume believed that all knowledge comes from experience and observation. 3) Rene Descartes argued "I think, therefore I am," viewing the mind and body as separate but attached. 4) Other philosophers discussed include Kant, Merleau-Ponty, Augustine, Aquinas, and Freud.

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Overview of Key Philosophers' Ideas

This document summarizes key philosophers and their views on the self: 1) Socrates believed that knowing oneself was a prerequisite for virtue and that we should strive for knowledge. Plato viewed the self as having rational, spiritual, and appetitive components. 2) David Hume believed that all knowledge comes from experience and observation. 3) Rene Descartes argued "I think, therefore I am," viewing the mind and body as separate but attached. 4) Other philosophers discussed include Kant, Merleau-Ponty, Augustine, Aquinas, and Freud.

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Philosophers DAVID HUME

Plato is a student of socrates and a teacher of Empiricism ⁃ all learning comes from experiences
aristotle and observation
ur family reflects urself (positive knowledge, positive
behavior/ negative upcoming, negative behavior)
SOCRATES
 known because of “Know yourself”
 concern of man Emanuel Kant
 1st philosopher
“Respect for self” ⁃ We have a moral duty to respect
 for him strive for knowledge as it is pre-
ourselves as a person, a duty that derives from
requisite of virtue
dignity from rational being
 If you did something wrong, you know that it
is wrong Gilbert
Meta-cognition (thinking abt thinking)  The mind body and dichotomy
 “I act therefore I am”
 process of thinking abt ones on thinking and
 we are a bundle of behaviors
learning
MERLEAU PONTY
PLATO ⁃ Idea of self/ Perfect Self
 the body and mind are not separate entities, but
Components of Soul
rather than two components, at the same
 for our awareness  “the self is embodied subjectively”
 “the holy bible” genesis 1:24-28 “God created
3 DRIVE BODY LOVE VIRTU VICE man according man to his image”
parts E  it is Appropriate to think that the self as the
of
“multi bejewelled crown of creation
SOUL
RATIO LOGIC BRAIN TRUTH WISDO PRIDE AUGUSTINE
NAL AND M /
WISDO SLOTH  love and justice as the foundation of Individual
M self
SPIRIT EMOTI HEART HONOR COURA ANGER  the self has an immortal soul
ED ON / GE  when we die, our body will decompose, and pur
VICTOR soul will go to God
Y  Philosophy ⁃
APPET DESIRE BELLY PLEASU MODE GREED  body,die,soul eternal to God
ITIVE / RE RATIO
GENIT N THOMAS AQUINNAS
ALS
 Angelic Doctor
 Adapted the knowledge of Aristotle
Rene Descartes  We are composed of 2 (matter/tangible and
form) matterS
 Cogito, Ergo Sum (I think, therefore I am)
 refers to common stuff that makes up
 Like a machine that is attached to mind
everything in the universe form- essence of
substance of things
 cogito- mind
 extenza- extension of mind Sigmund Freud
ID-Internal Desire
Ego-Reality
SuperEgo- conscience

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