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Lesson 1. The Self: Personal and Developmental Perspective On Self and Identity Task 1. What Do You Like Most in Yourself?

Lesson 1 discusses concepts of self and identity from Socrates and Plato. Socrates believed an unexamined life is not worth living, while Plato viewed the self as dualistic with a perfect soul and imperfect body. The document agrees with Socrates that the soul has three components and with Plato that the self has a dual nature of body and soul. However, it disagrees that the soul is perfect, since people commit sins on earth. Lesson 2 discusses additional philosophers' perspectives on self, including differences between views of the soul animating the body versus rationality defining the self. It finds John Locke's view of the self evolving over a lifetime through experience to be

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Lesson 1. The Self: Personal and Developmental Perspective On Self and Identity Task 1. What Do You Like Most in Yourself?

Lesson 1 discusses concepts of self and identity from Socrates and Plato. Socrates believed an unexamined life is not worth living, while Plato viewed the self as dualistic with a perfect soul and imperfect body. The document agrees with Socrates that the soul has three components and with Plato that the self has a dual nature of body and soul. However, it disagrees that the soul is perfect, since people commit sins on earth. Lesson 2 discusses additional philosophers' perspectives on self, including differences between views of the soul animating the body versus rationality defining the self. It finds John Locke's view of the self evolving over a lifetime through experience to be

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Lesson 1.

The Self: Personal and Developmental Perspective on Self and Identity


Task 1.
What do you like most in yourself?
- I do like most about myself is that I am a kind of person who is not that intelligent nor
smart but I am always willing to improve myself and admit if I do wrong.

What do you dislike most in yourself?


- I am shy, I wish I was more socially confident when I meet new people, and facing many
people like in stage and classmates when presenting ideas.

Task 2: Illustrate the ideas of Socrates and Plato on self-using graphic illustration.

SOCRATES PLATO

Unexamined life is not Self- controlled man will know himself


worth living and will be capable of looking to see
what he knows and he doesn’t

Components of Soul
Everyman is dualistic by:
Rational Appetitive
Spirited Soul
Soul Soul
Soul Body

Forged by In charge of In charge of


reason and Emotions base desires Imperfect and
Perfect and
intellect has to like eating, impermanent
permanent
govern the drinking etc. aspect
affairs of
human person

Task 3. Explain the compatibility and incompatibility of your perspective on self with the
concepts of Socrates and Plato presented above. Support your answer with personal
experience in life.
Compatibility (Socrates)- I am in favor to Socrates perspective that our is composed by three
components. I believe that our moral, spiritual and desires personalities are separated but they
are connected to each other. And as a God’s army if we can attain to make these three
components harmoniously with God’s will, our soul will be virtuous.
Compatibility (Plato)- I agreed to Plato’s perspective that “every man is dual in nature of body
and soul”, I believe that God created us compose by body and soul. I believe that individuals
have imperfect and impermanent because no one is perfect, all of us are making sins and
mistakes while living here on earth and our body is impermanent because we all die but our
soul will remain.
Incompatibility- I do not agree to Plato’s perspective that our soul is perfect, why? Because God
created us with a clean and pure soul but as we go on living here on earth we are committing
sins and mistakes that make our soul not to be perfect.
Lesson 2. Other Philosophical Perspective on self

Task 1. What are the things that you cannot understand about yourself?
- Sometimes I have difficulty remembering faces and their names when I meet someone
long time ago.
- Overthinking! My part of my brain thinks too much and too negative to take away all the
happiness from me. I have a special power to think about things which is far away from
possibility.

Task 2. Compare and contrast the perspectives on self presented above.


Difference
Aquinas- soul animates the body and makes us human.
Descartes- existence of the self is human rationality.
John Locke- Self is comparable to an empty space. Experience is an important requirement.
Analysis eventually becomes sense perception.
Hume- self is bundle of impressions.
Merleau- Porty- mind and body are intertwined.
Similarities
Descartes and John Locke- reason is the foundation of knowledge of the self, and establish our
personalities.
John Locke- Self are compose by sense, feeling, and thought.
Task 3. Which perspective is compatible with your perspective on self. Point out aspects
where they have positive correlations with your own self perspective.
- John Locke’s perspective is compatible with my perspective on self. Personal identity is
the concept about oneself that evolves over the courses of an individual’s life.

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