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SELF TERMS

• Terms from the Chapter
• Men go abroad to wonder at the height of
  mountains, at the huge wave of the sea, at the
  long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass
  of the ocean, at the circular motions of the
  stars and they passed by themselves without ever
  wondering. -Saint Augustine
• Nosce Teipsum. Know thyself, and know the
  universe.
• -Delphic Oracle

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Essential Self/Soul

• Pg. 185 the belief that there is within us a
  real self, a self that does not vary from
  context to context.
• Question Does the Essential Self exist?

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Self-Identity

• Pg. 186 Self-identity is the way a person
  characterizes his or her self. This includes both
  a general characterizationor as a member of a
  group Christian, Buddhist, Jew.
• Question How much do or should physical traits
  play into your concept of self? Group association
  vs. Individual concept?

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Thinking Self

• Pg. 187 The thinking self is the self that is
  aware of itself.
• -Rene Descartes believed the thinking self to be
  the essential self
• Question Do people that are in a coma have a
  self at that moment?

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Solipsism

• Pg. 187 We can only begin to know ones own
  mind knowledge of anything outside our mind or
  anyone elses mind cannot be known.
• -David Hume was a skeptic who said that we never
  know anything but our own ideas and experiences.
• Question Is it ever possible to know someone?

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Memory and the Self

• Pg. 188 John Locke argued that the self was
  not the whole of consciousness but a specific
  part of the mind namely, our memory.
• -Locke believed the Self was the part of the mind
  that remembers its past.
• Question If someone were to lose their memory,
  are they the same self?

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Emotional Self

• Pg. 190 Kierkegaard defined the self in terms
  of the passionsones most important mission in
  life was to cultivate the self by cultivating
  ones passions.
• -Nietzsche insisted that humans cultivate their
  aesthetic sensibilities (art, beauty,
  individuality)
• -Aristotle and Confucius urged people to
  cultivate ethical sensibilities (virtues)

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Freuds Emotional Self

• Pg. 191 Freudlocated emotions in the id as
  opposed to the ego, suggesting that they
  threatened the integrity of the self rather than
  being part of it. Plato thought that the
  emotions were the spirited part of the soul that
  needed to be governed by reason.
• Question Should emotions or reason be in
  charge of the self? Do emotions have
  reason/logic?

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What is an Emotion?

• Pg. 192 In groups of 3-4 read the top of page
  192 from Nevertheless to the end of the third
  paragraph. Stop at the bloc quote from William
  James
• In your understanding, what exactly is an
  emotion?
• Answer the following
• Define the following terms in your own words
  Self-Identity, Essential Self, Thinking Self,
  Emotional Self
• In your estimation, explain the role of emotions,
  memory impulses in shaping your essential self

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Questions

• Answer the following on a separate sheet of
  paper. Please answer in complete sentences.
• Define the following terms in your own words
  Self-Identity, Essential Self, Thinking Self,
  Emotional Self
• In your estimation, explain the role of emotions,
  memory impulses in shaping your essential self
• Explain whether emotions or actions are more
  significant in shaping yourself?