PHILOSOPHICAL SELF  The rational part is the HEAD, the

SPIRIT is in the upper part of the

SOCRATES
 Know thyself! SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
 Question everything  Doktor ng simbahan
 Only the pursuit of goodness brings  MOTHER > Christian; FATHER >
happiness remains a pagan
 SOCRATIC METHOD > question  He takes a different philosophy
and answer, leads to students before he became a Christian at the
thinking for themselves AGE OF 35
 An unexamined life is not worth  TEMPERANCE > a love of giving
living up entirely himself to Him and that’s
 I cannot teach anybody anything, I the only reason
can only make them think  COURAGE > a love that can go
 To know is to know that you know beyond everything with pleasure for
nothing. That is the meaning of the sake of Himself and that’s the
TRUE KNOWLEDGE. only reason
 JUSTICE > love that is uniquely
serve only Him and no other reason
PLATO  PRUDENCE > love that can make
 Greek philosopher who founded the the right decision on what prevents
ACADEMY in ATHENS and what helps
 ACADEMY > first institution of  PRAY where supposedly everything
learning in the West depends on God. WORK which
 Never discourage anyone who seems all depends on you.
continually makes progress, no  You must lose whatever you have
matter how slow filled and you will be filled with
 Be kind, because all the people we things that you don’t have
meet may have battle to surpass  Admission of wrongdoing is the first
 Scholars and wise men speak step to a good cause
because they have to say; fools speak  A HABIT that, if not prevented, is
because they have to speak becoming a NECESSITY
 MUSIC is a moral law. It gives
SOUL to the WORLD, WINGS to
the MIND, FLIGHT to the RENE DESCARTES
IMAGINATION, and CHARM to  Cogito ergo sum > I think, therefore,
LIFE and to everything I am > Ito ang iniisip ko kaya ito ako
 The SOUL is in the HUMAN BODY
  The MIND exists. Not far from the  MORALITY is not properly the
mind of man, so MAN exists. doctrine of how we make ourselves
 When in doubt someone has doubts happy, but how we may make
for him, the work itself will doubt ourselves worthy of happiness
the fact that he exists  CONSCIOUSNESS is divided into:
1. INTERNAL SELF > composed
of the psychological states and
JOHN LOCKE informed decisions; remembering
our own state, how can we
 No man’s knowledge here can go combine the new and old ideas
beyond his EXPERIENCE with our mind
 Even if a man has the ability to 2. EXTERNAL SELF > made up of
think, it does not mean that he is ourselves and the physical world
using it where the representation of
 Others have chosen to live in objects are
ignorance, others think very weak, or
others are slaves to their emotions
which they use their brains to SIGMUND FREUD
understand the laws of nature
 Others chose to simply be bad  The child is the father of man
because they are accustomed to it  A famous neurologist
 Create psychoanalysis
 THREEFOLD yourself:
DAVID HUME 1. ID
o Early stage self-shaping
 A wise man, therefore, proportions
o The center of all human
his belief to the EVIDENCE
wants and desires that you
 EMPIRICISM is the theory that says
must satisfy
all knowledge comes from the
o Indifferent to the moral laws
SENSES
of society
 The MIND is not separated from
o Collections of preferences
PERCEPTION
that must be met
 The entire contents of the mind are
2. EGO
transmitted daily to the human
o Act according to reality
condition
o Balances the desires of the
 TEORYA NG BUNDLE ni Hume >
people and how to present it
the man is a collection of different
o To know what is right or
successive perceptions, always
wrong based on context
changing and moving
3. SUPEREGO
o To achieve the superego, it
can be cruel and punishable
IMMANUEL KANT
 o Looking at the perfection of  Rejects Edmund Husserl’s
things philosophical movement
o We felt embarrassment and  Analyzed experiences, perceptions
guilt when we have fallen and difficulties of human existences
short of the high expectations  Because we are in the world, we are
condemned to meaning, and we
cannot do or say anything without its
GILBERT RYLE acquiring a name in history
 The BODY is our general medium
 In searching for the self, one cannot
for having a world
simultaneously be the hunter and the
hunted
 SELF AND BEHAVIOR > I made
it, and so I am
 Wrong bases and problems arise on
how we give meaning and how we
deliver or how we paraphrase the
words

PATRICIA CHURCHLAND
 To understand the MIND, we must
understand the BRAIN
 There isn’t a special thing called
MIND. The MIND is just the
BRAIN.
 In all probability, mental states are
processes and activities of the brain.
Exactly what activities, and exactly
at what level of description, remains
to be seen.
 PAUL CHURCHLAND > modern
philosopher who studied the brain >
the self as a brain

MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
 French phenomenological
philosopher
 Philosophical movement called
EXISTENSIALISM