Philosophical Perspectives of the Self: Module 1

The history of philosophy particularly the western philosophy is replete with men and women who inquired into the fundamental nature of ______.

The Greeks were the ones who started to seriously question myths and then moved away from them in attempting to understand reality and responded to the perennial questions of curiosity, including the question of the ______.

At the end of this lesson, you should be able to: 1. explain why it is essential to understand the ______.

Socrates and Plato were important figures in ______ philosophy.

Prior to Socrates, the Greek thinkers, sometimes collectively called the Pre-Socratics, preoccupied themselves with the question of the primary substratum, arché that explains the multiplicity of things in the ______.

The inquiry on the ______ has preoccupied the earliest thinkers in the history of western philosophy: the Greeks.

Socrates was more concerned with the problem of the ______

Plato claimed that Socrates affirmed that the unexamined life is not worth ______

Socrates declared during his trial that his indictment was due to engaging men to question their presuppositions about themselves and the ______

Socrates served as a 'gadfly' to disturb Athenian men from their ______

Socrates believed that every man is composed of body and ______

Plato added to Socrates' teachings that there are three components of the ______: rational soul, spirited soul, and appetitive soul