Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL DEFINITION OF THE SELF - Coggle…
PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL DEFINITION OF THE SELF
Rene Descartes
The only thing that cannot be doubted is the existence of the self. He has had famous "cogito ergo sum" which is translated to, "I think therefore, I am."
For him, self is the combination of two distinct entity. The "cogito" and extenza".
St. Augustine
In his philosophy, the development of the self is achieved through the self-presentation and self realization.
Immanuel Kant
Kant, believes that self is not just what gives one his personality. Furthermore, it is also the seat of knowledge.
Plato
Examination of the self as a unique experience according to him. In his philosophy, "Psyche" is the experience then will eventually better understand the core of the self. "Nous" is the conscious awareness of the self.
SOCRATES
"SOUL"
"A thinking and willing subject." - Frederic Copleston
Assuming, the Soul for Socrates is that "Soul is the intellectual and moral personality of the humans."
The Soul is the essence of the human person. "The Soul is the person's true self
John Locke
"The self is comparable to an empty space." He also added that the important requirement in order to have a sense of data is experience.
David Hume
He asserted that as long as we only derive our knowledge from sense of impressions, there will be no self.
He insisted that the self is complex. e regarded "I" that ordinarily constitute both mental and physical actions. He created two models to better understand his concept, the topographical model and structural model.
Sigmund Freud
Gilbert Ryle
According to him, we will only able to understand the self based from the external manifestations. Therefore, the mind is nothing but a disposition of the self.
Merleau-Ponty
His work in developing a kind of phenomenological rhythm explains the perception of the self.
The three dimensions of the rhythm are; empiricist take on perception, idealist-intellectual alternatives, synthesis of both positions.