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WorksheetsQUIZ 1 UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
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. (a) 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 (a) , in contemporary literature and even common sense, is commonly defined by the following characteristics: “separate, self-contained, independent, consistent, unitary and private.”
_______________ means that -because in itself it can exist its distinctness allow it to be self-contained with its own thoughts, characteristics, and volition. It does not require any other self for it to exist
consistent
unique
separate
self contained and independent
Each person sorts out information, feelings and emotions, and though processes within the self. This whole process is never accessible to anyone but the self. This last characteristic of the self being private suggest that the self is isolated from the external world
Separate
Private
Unitary
Consistent
there is a vibrant relationship between the self and the external reality. This reality is called _____________ constructionist perspective - that argues for a merged view of the person and their social context where the boundaries of one cannot easily be separated from the boundaries of the other.
emotional
social
personal
mental
(a) refers to a person's sense of who he is, his body, and his basic identity, his biological governess.
(a) has much to do with what it means to live in a particular institution, a particular family, a particular religion, a particular nationality and how to behave given expectations and influences from others.
____________ is one of those loci of the self that is subject to alteration, change, and development.
belief
gender
perception
motives
