Quiz 1 in Understanding the Self

   St. Augustine in his proclaim takes this idea and expands it into an entire genre that critically inquires what it means to be a person.

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Anthropology is the scientific study of the origins of animals, how we have changed over the years, and how we relate to each other, both within our own culture and with people from other cultures.

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In studying and interpreting the vast range of similarities and differences in human societies and cultures, sociologist also seek to understand how people themselves make sense of the world in which they live.

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Philosopher and psychologist William James (1842–1910) was one of the first to postulate a theory of the self in The Principles of Psychology.

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Plato is a Individualist; there is both immaterial mind (soul) and material body, and it is the soul that knows the forms.

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Forethought involves “the temporal extension of agency” by setting goals and anticipating future events: It includes more than future-directed plans.

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Personality (self), in the Carl Jung perception, is an achieved state of moral excellence rather than a given human condition.

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Arguments of Bandura: Personality (self) as such is not seen as inherently existing, but as something that is being formed through upbringing and environment.

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Every person is born with four beginnings, which do not encapsulate a concept of self as yet, but which together, if put in the western framework of thi Enking, may be called „pre-self‟, or „potential-self‟:

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Aristotle Invented the phrase “Know thyself”

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