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Plato’s proposed philosophy about the self was designed by starting on the examination of the self as a unique experience.
In his philosophy, the experience then will eventually better understand the core of the self which he called the “Psyche”.
His quest for discovering the self was started by his methodic doubt
The Meditation of First Philosophy”, his famous treatise there he claimed that there is so much that we should doubt
Descartes then added that the only thing that one cannot be doubted is the existence of the self
John Locke opposed to the idea that only reason is the source of knowledge of the self
the self is comparable to an empty space
The important requirement in order to have a sense of data is the experience.
Without the self, an individual cannot organize the different impressions that one gets in relation to his own existence.
these are the apparatuses of the mind.
it is also the seat of knowledge acquisition for all human person.
He regarded the self as the “I” that ordinarily constitute both mental and physical actions.
According to him, the “I” will continue to change overtime therefore it will never be the same. He sees the “I” as a product of multiple interacting process, systems, and schemes.
According to Ryle, the thinking “I” will never be found because it is just a “ghost in the machine”
According to Ryle, we will be only able to understand the self based from the external manifestations.
Phenomenology of Perception of Maurice Merleau-Ponty draws heavily from the contemporary research Gestalt psychology and neurology