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The Self from Philosopher Perspective

Philosopher Self Example
1.Socrates Every man is composed of body and soul. This means Our inner self, or soul, is all important. We must
that every human person is dualistic, that is, he obtain knowledge of what is good and what is bad
composed of two important aspects of his personhood. than attaining tangible aspects.
This mean, all individuals have an imperfect,
impermanent aspect, the body, while maintaining that
there is also a soul that is perfect and permanent. Our
true self is our soul, not the things we typically associate
with making a person who they are (status, material
belongings, physical belongings, and physical
appearance).
2.Plato Self is fundamentally an intellectual entity whose Rational self: We as a human person have an
“true” or essential nature exist as separate from the intellectual part which help us to understand
physical world. Plato also supported the perspective of everything in our surroundings sometimes we use
Socrates that the man is a dual nature of the body and this in reasoning in some ideas that we need to
soul and he added that there are three components to prove.
the soul, the rational self which is composed by reason Spirited part: As a normal people we all have
and intellect, spirited part which is in charge of different emotions by showing your emotion it is
emotions and appetitive soul which is in charge of base also represents yourself.
desires, like eating, drinking, sleeping and having Appetitive soul: As a teenager I have many
sexual intercourse, is controlled as well. desires that I want to get.
3. St. Augustine St. Augustine sense of self is his relation to God, both in There are some people that find their life
his recognition of God’s love and his response to it- miserable because they are not living with God’s
achieved through self-presentation, then self- side. It is true that if you start your day with God
realization. He believed that one could not achieve all will be smooth and easy. I think St. Augustine
inner-piece without finding God’s love. believe that sense of self is his relation to God
because when you don’t know who you are it is
hard to control yourself and you are not really
confident in all matters, just like when you don’t
 find God’s love you will not also find the real
contentment and peace.
4.Rene Descartes Self is a thinking thing, a separate thing called a “mind” Everything that we are doing are all product of
which interacts with the body. The self is also a our mind, sometimes even it is good or bad we are
combination of two distinct entities, The cogito which is doing it because our mind said it. Our body is just
the things that thinks, which is the mind and extenza like a robot that operated by our mind. If the
which is the extension of the mind, which is the body message goes to our mind our body immediately
react on it.
5.John Locke The self is consciousness We our always aware of our self, we know what
are the talent that we have, the skills we expertise
and all our capability. We are conscious on our
own selves because we are the one who really
know our personal matters.
6.David Hume The self is just a “bundle of perception, which succeed They said that the experience is the best teacher,
each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in when someone is going to apply in work, if he
perpetual flux and movement”. In reality, what one already have an experience he can easily do the
thinks as unified self is simply a combination of all task given to him because from his experience he
experiences with a particular person. Self can be already have an idea of that work that he applied.
categorized into two, the impression which is the basic
object of our experience or sensation and ideas which is
only the copy of impressions.
7.Immanuel Kant Self is an actively engaged intelligence in man that In our everyday life we are receiving different
synthesizes all knowledge and experiences. Thus, the knowledge and also we are facing many
self is not just what gives one his personality. It is also experiences and all of that are combine and it is
the seat of knowledge acquisition for all human person. molding our whole self. The whole you now is the
result of your accumulated experiences and
knowledge.
8.Sigmund Freud The self is multilayered, the id which is the seat of all During examination, you can’t remember the
our desires and wants, ego which deals with reality, answer for one item even though you studied,
trying to meet the desires of the id in a way that is your seatmate is one of the intelligent student in
socially acceptable in the world, and superego which is your class, you could see the answer of your
based on morals and judgements about right and seatmate when your teacher is not looking but you
wrong. chose to focus on your own paper and guess the
answer because you know that cheating is wrong.
9.Gilbert Ryle The self is how you behave. The way you act or behave will actually reflects
The self is not an entity one can locate and analyze but the whole you. If you are assigned to do
simply the convenient name that people use to refer to something, the result of your work will introduce
all behavior that people make. yourself.
 10.Paul Churchland The self as the brain The brain is the control center. No one can dictate
Based on this assertion, Churchland holds to what we want to do, no one can control yourself,
eliminative materialism. Stated simply, eliminative only you! Everybody have their own brain that
materialism argues that the ordinary folk psychology have a capability to think what they are going to
of mind is wrong. It is the physical brain and not the do and We make our own decisions for our self.
imaginary mind give us our sense of self.
11.Maurince Merleau- The self is embodied subjectivity Our self is an embodied subjectivity because
Ponty Mind and body are so intertwined that they cannot be when we remember miserable experiences our
separated from one another. emotion suddenly comes out and that’s how our
One cannot find any experience that is not an embodied body react on what we are thinking.
experience. All experience is embodied. The living
body, his thoughts, emotions, and experiences are all
one.