The Self Definition, Nature and Significance.pptx

Nature of the Self

1. The Self : Definition , Nature and Significance

2. “ Let Us Pray ” Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for today. Thank you for ways in which you provide for us all. For Your protection and love we thank you. Help us to focus our hearts and minds now on what we are about to learn. Inspire us by Your Holy Spirit as we listen to our teacher. Guide us by your eternal light as we discover more about ourselves and the world around us. Take control of our hearts, Lord. Make us the kind of person you want us to be. Amen.

3. HOUSE RULES: Be attentive. Stay in a place where you won’t be distracted. Have a note and a pen available. Keep your microphone turned off (unless asked by the teacher to turn it on). Do the activities that you’re asked to do.

4. LESSON 3 The SELF: Definition, Nature and Significance At the end of this module, you are expected to: Define self, and identify its nature and importance; and Discuss the need and the process of understanding the self.

5. Welcome back to your learning journey of KNOWING YOURSELF!

6. What is SELF ? Why there is a need for us to know and understand ourselves ?

7. So, what is SELF ? It is a perceived personality , as a self-interest – (wherein) one’s interest and welfare is placed before those of other people, or as a complete personality – one that a person recognizes as his or her own and with which there is a sense of ease. Encarta Dictionaries (Microsoft Encarta, 2009)

8. Meaning of the SELF According to Ariola (2018) , the term “self” is defined in many ways: 1. SELF is a unified being and is essentially connected to consciousness , awareness , and activity or with the faculty of rational choice. It means all the different aspects of the self are integrated (or connected) in a harmonious way such that one aspect is not in conflict with others or driven in another direction.

9. a Work Me and a Personal Life Me. It’s her passion to help people more meaningfully connect through better communication.  It is her realization that the magical key to this, is recognizing that we are all human beings who have our own emotions, dreams, inner worlds, and beautifully diverse lives. For her, it only makes sense that she share her vulnerability as a fellow human. Meaning of the Self… For example: Jenn M. Choi (2016), in her blog, “The Unified Self”, described that it is the authentic integration of all the different aspects of herself and sharing the whole human being for the world to see. Before, she felt a bit segmented . The different parts of her life were compartmentalized into neat little boxes.  For years, when she was working in corporate, she felt like she had to split between

10. Meaning of the Self…   2. SELF is the condition of identity that makes one subject of experience distinct from all others. This means that the situations we encounter every day make our experiences unique from what other people are experiencing. For example: The experience of losing someone you love in an untimely death is more painful than the death of a friend’s loved one where she had been prepared for his death.

11. Meaning of the Self…   3. SELF is exhibited and inferred in the conduct and discourse that emanate from the individual alone. Our self can be shown in our behavior and in the way we present ourselves to others that it can only come from our own self. For example: President Duterte is known to be a strong and tough-talking leader. Since 2016, he has unleashed a “war on drugs” and an all-out war against communist insurgents, both of which have allegedly led to widespread human rights abuses. He agitated state forces and supporters with his bombastic rhetoric against “enemies of the state.” He is notorious and unapologetic for cursing and resorting to profanity when expressing dismay and anger over the country’s social problems (Palatino, 2020).

12. Meaning of the Self…   4. SELF is the person regarded as an individual apart from all others. It is the character of the person that makes him/her different from others. For Example: Pia Wurtzbach , Miss Universe 2015, was known for her answer in the Miss Universe Pageant – “confidently beautiful with a heart” – describing the best version of herself is when she is able to inspire and help other people. Indeed, throughout her reign she was able to inspire both men and women as well as done charitable works proving that she is confidently beautiful (Green, 2020).

13. Meaning of the Self…   5. SELF is one’s identity. Self is usually referred to as the sense of “who I am” and “what I am” , while IDENTITY is referred to as how one perceived you or how others perceived you to be. Therefore, self is the way I see it as how others perceived me to be who I am. For example : I described myself as beautiful because other people perceived me to be beautiful.

14. Meaning of the Self…   6. SELF is expressed in the first person. Self is regarded as the “I” and the “me”. For example: I know how to dance. Therefore, I can do it.

15. Meaning of the Self…   7. SELF is a dynamic, responsive process that structures neural pathways according to past adolescent environment (Self, Culture and Society Class, 2015). Self is capable of change and has the ability to adjust in response to the stimuli in the social environment Self is involved in regulating its actions and responses as influenced by past adolescent environment. For example : Emotions related to negative experience with a teacher hinders a student to learn.

16. Nature of the Self   Ariola (2018) stated that there are many explanations with respect to the nature of the self.   The self is independent of the senses. It has no sensory contact with its own body. It is not logically dependent on any physical being. – Avicenna in his famous essay, “The Floating Man” The self may have changed in many respects but the same self appears present as was present then. Thus, the self is a bundle or collection of different perspectives which succeed one another with an inconceivable and are in perpetual flux and movement. – David Hume

17. Nature of the Self…   3. The self is a narrative center of gravity, not physically detestable but a kind of convenient fiction that does not correspond to anything tangible. “People constantly tell themselves stories to make sense of their world, and they feature in the stories as a character and that convenient but fictional character is the self” – Daniel Dennett 4. The self is both legal and moral person. It is legal in the sense that he is free and equal to other selves; moral because he may have a unique identity different from other selves – Joshua Knobe

18. Nature of the Self…   5. The self is an intersubjective being, a unique being who is never alone on its existence in the world. Since the self is an intersubjective being, the self establishes relationship with “I” and “thou” (you) – Rick Warren in his “Purpose Driven Life” 6. According to Swami Vivekananda , the self is conditioned by three factors: (1) the sense are unreliable ; (2) the mind is conditioned by space-time ; and (3) the mind is conditioned by logical limitations .

19. Nature of the Self…   7. The self is constantly evolving due to the complexities of culture and societies. The self is dependent on the culture that the self has been situated in. Eastern vs. Western cultures show that there are differences among the self. 8. Religion views the nature of the self very widely. The self is a complex and core subject in many spirituality. Spirituality is the self’s search for ultimate meaning through independent comprehension of the sacred.

20. Nature of the Self…   9. Human beings have a self - that is they are able to look back on themselves as both subjects and objects in the universe. 10. The Self is the thinking and feeling being within us and within ourselves – it is the distinct identity which is the summation of the experiences of an individual ( Magalona , Sadsad and Cruz, 2018).

21. Importance of the Self Philosophers look at self as very important in several ways ( Ariola , 2018):   According to Kant, by knowing ourselves, we can be free and our actions and choices matter, we can make good on these commitments without fear of being contradicted by theory. In other words, we can be responsible to ourselves.

22. Importance of the Self 2. By knowing the self, we are able to examine what type of object the self is and how it is constituted. 3. According to Thorin Klosowski , by knowing the self, we are able to develop self-awareness and introspection which are the starting point to every improvement. This improvement relates to understanding your own needs, desires, and feelings, habits and everything else. The more you know about yourself, the better you are at adopting life changes.

23. Importance of the Self 4. Understanding the self is a very important basis of quantified self-movement which means that if a person collects data about himself, he can make improvements based on that data (New York Times report) 5. Knowing the self requires more than intellectual self-examination for it demands knowing something about your feelings and emotions. The more you pay attention to your feelings and emotions and how you work on them, the better you will understand why you do the things you do. Ultimately, the more you know about your habits, the easier it is to improve those habits.

24. The Need of Understanding the Self According to Ariola (2018), there is a well—encompassing need to understand the self, thus, understanding the self – Helps learners acquire a positive sense of self and social responsibility. Help learners develop their potentials to enable them to live harmoniously in the context of a fast changing and challenging world. Helps learners participate meaningfully in all endeavors as responsible members of a global community taking into account multi-cultural perspectives.

25. The Need of Understanding the Self… Helps learners understand local and global issues and concerns that continue to impact their lives and the lives of others. Enables the learners develop the capacity to think , reason and act legally and morally as these will have a sphere of influence to others. Enables the learners to behave in ways that will fulfill their needs and goals in the contemporary society. Helps the learners to possess personal, civil, and moral obligations , not only to themselves but also to their families, nations, and the globalized contemporary society.

26. The Need of Understanding the Self… Ariola (2018) emphasized that understanding the self must continue to expand beyond the self to a larger self. The flow of change process must necessarily start from the self and continues throughout life so that the self will live and work effectively as a human person.

27. In Lesson 3, you learned about the various definitions of the self.   According to Ariola (2018), the nature of the self is as follows: The self is independent of the senses ; The self may have changed in many respects but the same self appears present as what was present then ; The self is a narrative center of gravity , not physically detestable but a kind of convenient fiction that does not correspond to anything tangible; the self is both legal and moral person ; The self is an inter-subjective being , a unique being who is never alone on its existence in the world;

28. 6) The self is conditioned by three factors: (a) the sense are unreliable; (b) the mind is conditioned by space-time ; and (c) the mind is conditioned by logical limitations ; 7) The self is constantly evolving due to the complexities of culture and societies; 8) Religion views the nature of the self very widely; 9) Human beings have a self; and 10) The Self is the thinking and feeling being within us and within ourselves .   You also learned why the self is important and the need of understanding the self.  

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