Understanding The Self

What is the essence of mind?

• thought

• substance

• modes of substance

• mind

According to him the body and soul is inseparable. the self is a unified creature

• Socrates

• Plato

• St. Augustine

• Aristotle

The part of the soul responsible for reason and critical thought possessed only by humans.

• Emotional Soul

• Appetitive soul

• Rational Soul

• Spiritual soul

According to him self is composed of body and brain

• Sigmund Freud

• John Locke

• David Hume

• Rene Descartes

Concerned with social rules and morals. it is the conscience or moral compass

• ego

• id

• super id

• super ego

It governs human behavior

• impression

• reason

• passion

• experience

it is what makes a rational soul the highest level of soul

• capable of thinking

• capable of thinking

• Hylomorphism

• vision and purpose

It is subjected to the mechanical laws

• physical body

• mind

• soul

• brain

Rene Descartes describe this as the intellectual substance which possesses a will

• mind

• physical body

• soul

• brain

Identical with knowledge

• virtuous

• virtue

• endogenously

• knowledge