Understanding The Self Lesson 1

Love of wisdom

the desire for truth

Inquiry in the nature of human existence

Cause, reason, principles

• Philosophy

• Paleontology

• Biology

• Physiology

Man must live an examined life and a life with purpose and knows the value of oneself.

• Plato

• Socrates

• John Locke

• St. Augustine

The body belongs to the physical realm (is changeable and imperfect) while the soul belongs to the ideal realm (unchanging and eternal).

• Socrates

• Plato

• St. Augustine

• David Hume

A method of examining a person’s thoughts and emotions to gain knowledge about the self. It aims to make people think, seek and ask.

• Plato's Method

• Humic Method

• Socratic Method

• Sigmundian Method

The self is an immortal soul.

• Socrates

• Plato

• John Locke

• David Hume

needs, desires, pleasures.

• Appetite

• Spirit

• Reason

Includes emotions (love, anger, aggressiveness, ambition, and empathy, the drive towards action.

• Appetite

• Spirit

• Reason

Enables the person to think deeply, make decisions, motivation for goodness and truth.

• Appetite

• Spirit

• Reason

He described that the humankind is created in the image and likeness of God, therefore the man is always geared towards good.

• St. Augustine

• Rene Descartes

• John Locke

• David Hume

I think therefore I am. Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am)

The act of thinking about oneself is in itself a proof that there is a self.

• John Locke

• St. Augustine

• David Hume

• Rene Descartes