Philosophical Perspective of Self

This means love of wisdom.

• Anthropology

• Psychology

• Sociology

• Philosophy

"I think therefore I am. "

We are a thinking thing.

• Immanuel Kant

• Gilbert Ryle

• Rene Descartes

• Socrates

How you behave is who you are.

• Gilbert Ryle

• Paul Churchland

• Immanuel Kant

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The self is multilayered: the unconscious, pre-conscious, and the conscious.

• Rene Descartes

• Sigmund Freud

• Plato

• John Locke

Our minds at birth are considered tabula rasa or blank slate.

• John Locke

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• Paul Churchland

• Socrates

The self constructs the reality. The self is at the center of its world.

• Immanuel Kant

• Gilbert Ryle

• David Hume

• Sigmund Freud

The self is composed of two dichotomous realms: the physical and ideal realms.

• Plato

• Socrates

• St. Augustine

• Rene Descartes

The soul is tripartite: the reason, spirit, and appetite.

• Socrates

• St. Augustine

• Immanuel Kant

• Plato

Believed that when the body dies, the soul lives eternally with God.

• Socrates

• Plato

• St. Augustine

• David Hume

Our self is an imaginary creature composed of impermanent state of events.

• Gilbert Ryle

• David Hume

• Immanuel Kant

• Paul Churchland