Philosophical Perspective of the Self

Who is the father of Western Philosophy?

• Plato

• Socrates

• Thales

• Aristotle

It is a three-part soul/Self constituted by Plato which states that our basic emotions such as love, anger, ambition, aggressiveness, empathy.

• Reason

• Physical Appetite

• Spirit

• Rationality

His ideas follows the view of Plato but adds Christian ideas

• St. Augustine

• St. Thomas

• St. John

• St. Paul

A British philosopher and physician who laid the groundwork for an empiricist approach to philosophical questions. Locke’s revolutionary theory that the mind is a tabula rasa, a blank slate on which experience writes, is detailed in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690).

• Rene Descartes

• Immanuel Kant

• John Locke

• John Dewey

Who's concept is "There is No Self" which states that humans so desperately want to believe that they have a unified and continuous self or soul that they use their imaginations to construct a fictional self. But this fictional self is not real; what we call the self is an imaginary creature, derived from a succession of impermanent states and events?

• Karl Marx

• David Hume

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Slavoj ZIzek

According to him, this meaning-constructing activity (We construct the self) is precisely what our minds are doing all of the time: taking the raw data of experience and actively synthesizing it into the familiar, orderly, meaningful world in which we live.

• Voltaire

• David Hume

• Rene Descartes

• Immanuel Kant

He articulated the phenomenologist position in a simple declaration: “I live in my body.” (Example: When you wake up…) The “I” you refer to is a single integrated entity, a blending of mental, physical, and emotional structured around a core identity: your “self”.

• Merleau-Ponty

• David Hume

• Paulo Freire

• Mao Zedong

Who coins the "Know Thyself"?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Thales

He talks the concept of self as "Dualism"

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Thales

His idea of the self is about "The Self is Consciousness"

• Merleau-Ponty

• David Hume

• John Locke

• Immanuel Kant