QUIZ 1 UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

He was the first philosopher who engages in systematic questioning about the self

• PLATO

• SOCRATES

• DESCARTES

• DAVID HUME

The human person has the body but it is not what makes a man a man. If at all, that is the mind. _________________: says: “What then am I? A thinking thing, that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses; that imagines also and perceives.

• DAVID HUME

• RENE DESCARTES

• PLATO

• IMMANUEL KANT

For Hume, they can all be categorized into two: impressions and ideas. Example: when one touches fire, the hotness sensation is an _______________ which is the direct experience.

• idea

• impression

• expression

• cognition

"Every man is thus an end in himself and should never be treated merely as a means – as per the order of the Creator and the natural order of things."

• Immanuel Kant

• Gilbert Ryle

• Socrates

• Merleau Ponty

Augustine‟s view of the human person reflects the entire spirit of the medieval world when it comes to man. He combined the platonic ideas into Christianity perspective.

• True

• False

• Maybe

• Quite not sure

______________ refers to the common stuff that makes up everything in the universe.

• matter

• form

• molecule

• spirit

Adapting some ideas from Aristotle, Aquinas said that indeed, man is composed of two parts: matter and form. ________________ refers to the essence of the substance of things. It is what makes it what it is.

(Choose three answers)

Freud asserts that the human psyche [personality] is structured into 3 parts.

• id

• ego

• soul

• superego

He primarily concerned with how both psychological and social factors affect the development of individuals. He formulated 8 major stages of development, each posing a unique developmental task and simultaneously presenting the individual with a crisis that s/he must overcome [

• Sigmund Freud

• Erik Erikson

• Thomas Aquinas

• Gilbert Ryle

• Immanuel Kant

The ______________, in contemporary literature and even common sense, is commonly defined by the following characteristics: “separate, self-contained, independent, consistent, unitary and private.”