Clearing The Space: Imaging The Space From Various Perspectives PDF
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Glaiza S. Enriquez
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This document presents a lecture on the philosophical understanding of the self, highlighting key perspectives from various historical figures. The lecture explores different viewpoints on the nature of the human self throughout history. The presentation is designed to provide insights to students about philosophy.
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CLEARING THE SPACE: Imaging the Space from Various Perspective Glaiza S. Enriquez UTS Teacher LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of the period, the students should be able to: CLEARING THE SPACE: Imaging the Space from Various Persp...
CLEARING THE SPACE: Imaging the Space from Various Perspective Glaiza S. Enriquez UTS Teacher LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of the period, the students should be able to: CLEARING THE SPACE: Imaging the Space from Various Perspective PHILOSOPHY It focuses on the fundamental nature of THE SELF. CLEARING THE SPACE: Imaging the Space from Various Perspective ICONIC PHILOSOPHERS CLEARING THE SPACE: Imaging the Space from Various Perspective SOCRATES 1st philosopher who ever engaged in a systematic questioning about self he assest that "the true task of the philosopher is to know CLEARING THE SPACE: ONESELF" he posits that "the true task of the unexamined life is NOT Imaging worth living" the Space from Various Perspective he notes that "every man and woman in composed of body and soul" All individuals have an imperfect, impermanent aspect, the body, while maintaining that there is also a soul that is perfect and permanent. PLATO he argues that man and woman is dual nature and soul which has 3 components: CLEARING THE SPACE: the rational self the spirited self Imaging the the appetitive soulSpace from Various Perspective in his magnum apres, The Republic, Plato emphasizes that "justice in human person can only be attained if the 3 parts of the soul are working harmonously with one another. AUGUSTINE agreed that "man is a bifurcated nature" he posits that "the body is bound to die on earth and the soul is to anticipate living eternally in a CLEARING THE SPACE: realm of spiritual bliss in communion with Imaging God" the Space from Various Perspective further, he asserts that the goal of every human person is to attain this communion and bliss with the divine by living his life on earth in virtue. THOMAS AQUINAS the doctor of the church and the most eminent 13th century scholar and stalwart of the medieval philosophy CLEARING THE SPACE: he elucidates that man is composed ot two parts: matter Imaging the Space from Various form Perspective MATTER refers to common stuff tha makes up everything in the universe FORMS refers to the essence of a substance of thing. it is what makes ii what it is. THOMAS AQUINAS in he case of the human person, the body of human person is something that he/she shares even with animals. CLEARING THE SPACE: what makes human person a human Imaging the Space from Various person and Perspective not an animal is his/her soul, his/her essence. the SOUL is what animates the body, it is what makes us RENE DECARTES FATHER OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY who conceived that the human person as having a body and mind. he claims that there is so much that we shoukd CLEARING THE SPACE: doubt; in fact he says that much of what we think because they are infallible, may turn out to be false. Imaging the Space from Various he also thought that the only thing one cannot doubt Perspective is the existence of THE SELF. for even if one doubts oneself, that only proves that there is doubting self, a thing that thinks and therefor, that cannot he doubted. RENE DECARTES COGIO ERGO SUM I think therefore I am. which means that one thinks should lead one to conclude without a trace of doubt that he/she exists. CLEARING THE SPACE: THE SELF is also a combination of 2 district entities: The COGITO of the thing that thinks which is the Imaging MIND. the Space from Various Perspective The extenza or the extension of the mind, which is the body. The human person has it but it is not what makes ma a ma/woman a woman DAVID HUME Believes that one can know only what comes from the senses and experience. THE SELF is nothing like what his CLEARING THE SPACE: predecessors thought of it. Imaging the Space from Various THE SELF isPerspective not an entity over and beyond the physical body "Men and women can only attain knowledge be experiencing." DAVID HUME THE SELF is nothing else but a bundle of impressions; CLEARING THE SELF is also THE SPACE: a simple bundle of collection Imaging of Space the different perceptions from Various Perspective which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidly and are in perpetual flux and movement. EMMANUEL KANT Kant thinks that the things that men percieve areoung them are just randomly infused into the human person without CLEARING THE SPACE: an organizing principle that regulates the Imaging the Space from Various relationship of all these impressions. Perspective THE SELF is not what gives one his personality; it is also the set of knowledge acquisition for all human persons. GILBERT RYLE What truly matters is the behavior that a person manifests in his/her CLEARING day-to-day life.THE SPACE: THE SELF Imaging theisSpace not anfrom entity one can Various Perspective locate simply the convenient name that the people use to refer to all the behaviors that people make. MERLEACE PONTY The mind and the body are so interwind that they cannot be separated from one another. CLEARING THE SPACE: One cannot find any experience that is Imaging the Space from Various not an embodied experience, Perspective all experience is embodied, one's body is his/her opening toward his/her existence to the world. CLEARING THE SPACE: Imaging the Space from Various Perspective