MODULE #1: ASSIGNMENT
List down five (5) philosophers and their philosophical views of self. Then recall your
own personal experiences that relate to it and explain how you think your experience
affects your selfhood. Refer to the table below.
Philosophers
1. Plato
Philosophical
Views of Self
The Self is an
Immortal Soul
2. Aurelius
Augustinus
The Self has an
Immortal Soul
3. Rene
Descartes
I think Therefore I
am
4. John Locke
The Self is
Consciousness
Related Personal
Effects on your
Experiences
Selfhood
I am thinking of my
I can now think
future self and
about the things
making choices
that I can see. I am
between two things. now able to make
I am experiencing
decisions between
hunger and thirst
the choices that I
everyday. I know
have made. I eat on
how to love and I
time so that I can
have an ambition
satisfy myself from
which is to be a
hunger and thirst. I
successful person express my love for
in the future.
my family and I am
studying hard to
have a better
future.
I understand myself
I am attending
because I know
worship services
God. I believe that every Thursday and
there is an only one
Sunday in the
God which is our
Church of Christ. I
Heavenly Father.
am obeying His
commands.
I am thinking that I
I can understand
exists. I am
the things that I do
conscious about my
not know by
existence in this
analyzing and
world.
questioning itself
and making
reasons on why it
exists.
I can see myself in I am conscious and
the mirror. I can
aware towards my
hear the voices of
experiences in my
the person that I
life. I am conscious
am talking to. I can
because of my
smell my favorite
sense of
perfume. I can taste
experiences.
my favorite food
which is donut. I
5. Gilbert Ryle
The Self is the Way
People Behave
can feel the love of
my family for me.
I am studying in
college degree. I
want to be a
Certified Public
Accountant (CPA)
someday.
I am working hard
for my studies to
get good grades. I
have the goal now
that I will finish my
college degree so
that I can find a job
for myself.