Understanding Self

According to him, the self is composed of two parts the body and soul, the later having three components which is working in harmony with each other.

• Plato

• Socrates

• Augustine

• Aquinas

Socrates was the first philosopher who ever engaged in a systematic questioning, socratic questioning, about the self. To Socrates the true task of the philosopher is to know oneself which is _____.

• composed of body and soul, the soul is composed of the mind which is thinking

• composed of body and soul which will exist eternally with God.

• composed of the body and soul meaning every human is dualistic with imperfect and impermanent body and a perfect and permanent soul

• composed of body and soul which is inseparable

According to this philosopher man is composed of matter and form.

• Descartes

• Kant

• Plato

• Aquinas

He proposed that man is a bifurcated nature with a soul which lives eternally in spiritual bliss with God.

• Hume

• Kant

• Socrates

• Augustine

He said that "the only thing that one can't doubt is the existence of the self."

• Descartes

• Hume

• Kant

• Ryle

Ryle stated that _____.

• the self is a collection of different perceptions

• the self is not only personality but also the seat of knowledge

• the self is not an entity one can locate and analyze

• the body is a machine attached to the mind

According to him the mind and the body are inseparable

• Kant

• Ponty

• Ryle

• Hume

Which is not a description of philosophy?

• study of knowledge, reality, and existence.

• an academic discipline concerned with investigating the nature and significance of ordinary and scientific beliefs

• study of the self

• an academic discipline concerned with investigating the legitimacy of concepts

Which of the following best describes the biblical concept of the self?

• man is composed of body, soul, and spirit

• man is matter and form

• man is composed of the material and immaterial form

• man is a bifurcated being

According to Sigmund Freud, the self is ________.

• to be described in relation to our self-schema

• composed of two aspects the I as thinking and the Me as the physical characteristics

• the interaction between the id, ego, and super ego

• is created and developed through human interaction