Prelim Examination Understanding the Self

Work on the self is most represented by the concept of tabula rasa (blank slate).

• David Hume

• John Locke

• Immanuel Kant

• Sigmund Freud

The behavior that we show, emotions and actions are the reflection of our mind and as such is the manifestation of who we are. This is according to..

• Gilbert Ryle

• Paul Churchland

• Maurice Ponty

• Immanuel Kant

According to him the self is nothing else but a bundle of impressions?

• Immanuel Kant

• Rene Descartes

• John Locke

• David Hume

For him the self is also the seat of knowledge acquisition

• Hume

• Plato

• Ryle

• Kant

He suggested that man is composed of matter and form

• Socrates

• Augustine

• Aquinas

• Ponty

For him, genuine happiness can only be achieved if reason consistently rule over passion and spirits

• Socrates

• Plato

• Descartes

• Aristotle

"Body is the spouse of the soul".

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Augustine

• Aquinas

"Human beings are living bodies with distinguishable potentiae".

• Aquinas

• Ryle

• Hume

• Kant

I think therefore I am

• Hume

• Descartes

• Ryle

• Ponty

"There is no self!"

• Aquinas

• Hume

• Ryle

• Ponty