understanding the self pt2

The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially in an academic discipline.

• Theology

• Philosophy

• Psychology

• Scientology

Which is NOT a Socratic philosophy of "the self"?

• "Know thy self."

• The soul is composed of three parts, our desires, the conscious awareness of reason, and the spirited part which gets angry at injustice.

• Every person is dualistic

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

Who is the philosopher who believes in this-" the body – dies on earth; the soul lives eternally in spiritual bliss with God”?

• Rene Descartes

• St. Augustine

• Socrates

• John Locke

Complete this statement- "An unexamined life is...

Which is St. Thomas Aquinas' concept of self?

• I am a thinking thing.

• The soul is what makes us humans.

• One’s body is his opening toward his existence to the world.

• The self is a collection of different perceptions which rapidly succeed each other.

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

• Immanuel Kant

• Sigmund Freud

• David Hume

• John Locke

Complete this statement- "I think ...

Which is not part of the identity toolbox?

• age

• gender

• personal appearance

• address

TRUE or FALSE: Although some elements of personality stays the same over a lifetime, personality also grows and develops as a person does.

TRUE or FALSE: Individuals with a pessimistic attitude toward life generally live longer, healthier lives than those with an optimistic attitude.