Quiz 1-Understanding the Self

1. He believed that an individual's actions define his/her own concept of "self".

• Rene Descartes

• David Hume

• Gilbert Ryle

• St. Augustine

He believed that human being is both body and soul.

• Socrates

• Gilbert Ryle

• Plato

• St. Augustine

He believed that there are three parts of the soul, namely, appetitive, rational, and spirited.

• Rene Descartes

• Plato

• Gilbert Ryle

• Immanuel Kant

He claimed that human knowledge is derived from experiences. 

• John Locke

• Rene Descartes

• Immanuel Kant

• Socrates

He believed that the most important thing in life is the state of his/her soul and through self-knowledge.

• David Hume

• Immanuel Kant

• Plato

• Socrates

He is famous for this phrase, "I Think,Therefore I Am."

• Gilbert Ryle

• Rene Descartes

• Plato

• Socrates

He is known for his belief on "embodied subjectivity."

• Immanuel Kant

• Sigmund Freud

• Rene Descartes

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty

He practiced psychoanalysis in answering questions about the human psyche.

• Plato

• Sigmund Freud

• Rene Descartes

• David Hume

He asserted the sense of “self” originated from the brain itself, and that this “self” is a product of electrochemical signals produced by the brain.

• Paul Churchland

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• Immanuel Kant

• John Locke

His view of the “self” is transcendental, which  means the “self” is related to spiritual or nonphysical realm.

• Socrates

• Immanuel Kant

• Sigmund Freud

• Plato