HANDOUTS For UNIT 1 - The Self From Various Perspectives
HANDOUTS For UNIT 1 - The Self From Various Perspectives
PHILOSOPHY
The self in a philosophical paradigm
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Ancient Philosophy
1000 BC to 500 AD
The Ancient Triumvirate
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The Post-Aristotelians
Stoicism
Apathy or indifference to pleasure
Hedonism
“Eat, drink, and be happy. For tomorrow, you will die.”
Epicureanism
Moderate pleasure
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Medieval Philosophy
500 AD to 1350 AD
Theo-centric
▪ From the scientific investigation on
nature and search for happiness to the
question of life and salvation in another
realm, in a better world (i.e., the afterlife)
▪ There was an aim to merge philosophy
and religion
(Christian, Jewish, Muslim)
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Medieval Philosophy
500 AD to 1350 AD
St. Augustine
▪ Integrates Platonic ideas with the tenets of Christianity
▪ The self strives to achieve union with God through faith and reason
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If St. Thomas tells us that our knowledge is based on our encounter of things,
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Modern Philosophy
14th Century to the early 20th Century
Anthropocentric
▪ Thinkers began to reject the scholastics’
(medieval thinkers) excessive reliance on
authority
▪ Period of radical social, political and
intellectual developments
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Modern Philosophy
14th Century to the early 20th Century
Rene Descartes
The self is a thinking thing, distinct David Hume Gilbert Ryle
from the body There is no “self,” only a bundle of
The self is the way people behave
constantly changing perceptions
passing through the theater of our
minds.
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Sigmund Freud
Father of Psychoanalysis
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Contemporary Philosophy
Late 19th Century
Embodied Subjectivity:
• Both Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
agree that our living body is a natural
synthesis of mind and biology.
Phenomenological approach:
• describe the phenomena of the lived Edmund Husserl
We experience our self as a
experience (reducing biases) by
unity which the in mental and
describing what your immediate physical are seamlessly woven
responses are— physically, together
emotionally, cognitively. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The self is embodied subjectivity.
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SOCIOLOGY
The self as a product of modern society among other constructions
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Johari Window
(Joseph Luft & Harrington Ingham)
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PSYCHOLOGY
The self based on psychoanalytic approach and cognitive construction
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ID EGO SUPEREGO
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ID (Biological Self)
Pleasure Principle
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Symbolic Interactionism
(George Herbert Mead)
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Imaginary Audience
▪ Adolescents are thought to believe that others are always watching
and evaluating them, and that they are special and unique
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Self-Concept
▪ Mental representation
▪ What we look like
▪ How we feel in different types of
situation
▪ How we behave towards others
▪ What do we do at work
▪ What are the roles we have in the family
or society
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Self-Esteem
▪ Used to describe a person's overall
sense of self-worth or personal
value
▪ In other words, it refers to how
much you appreciate and like
yourself
▪ Self-esteem is often seen as a
personality trait, which means that it
tends to be stable and enduring
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Reference Group
▪ A group to which an individual
or another group is compared
▪ According to sociologists, a
reference group is any group
that individuals use as a
standard for evaluating
themselves and their own
behavior.
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ANTHROPOLOGY
The self and person in contemporary anthropology
& the self being embedded in culture
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Individualism Collectivism
▪ A human being has an ▪ A human being is an integral
individualistic nature and is an part of the universe and the
independent part of the society
universe and the society ▪ People are fundamentally
connected
▪ Duty towards all others is a very
important matter
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Individualism
Being dependent
Individual rights take Independence is upon others is often
center stage highly valued considered shameful
or embarrassing
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Collectivism
Social rules focus on
promoting selflessness Working as a group and
and putting the supporting others is
community needs ahead essential
of individual needs
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