Socrates:
Know Yourself
. Plato:
The Ideal Self, Perfect Self
Rene Descartes:
“I think therefore, I am”
John Locke:
Personal Identity
David Hume:
“The Self is the Bundle Theory of the Mind
Immanuel Kant:
Respect for Self
St. Augustine:
Love and Justice as the Foundation of the Individual Self
Each man is to examine oneself and to bring his inner selfto light.
“Know yourself”
A bad man is not virtuous throughignorance.
“An unexamined life is not worth living”
the core of Socratic Ethics. This is the deepest and most basic nature of man
Virtue
He believed in Dualism
Socrates
Knowing one’s own virtue is necessary and can be learned.
Socrates
That the man possesses both
body and soul
is imperfect and non-permanent
Body
is perfect and permanent.
Soul
Which philospher believe that we are composed by both body and soul
Socrates
reason and intellect to govern affairs
Rational Soul
emotions should be kept at bay
Spirited soul
base desires (food, drink, sleep, sexual needs, etc.)
Appetitive soul
Who said When these are attained, the human person’s soul becomes just andvirtuous.
Plato