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1. WHAT IS SELF? Defining the Self: Personal and Developmental Perspective on Self and Identity

2. Names are our first link to ourselves, but they are only symbols. INTRODUCTION What’s in a name ?

3. Why study the self? The self is not fixed; it is an evolving concept we shape throughout life.

4. David Hume Major Philosophers Socrates and Plato Augustine and Thomas Aquinas Rene Descartes Merleau-Ponty Immanuel Kant Gilbert Ryle

5. He is the first philosopher who systematically question the self. Believed in dualism : humans are composed of Body and Soul. Socrates Know Thyself

6. Supported the dualistic view of Body and Soul. Three parts of the soul: Rational Soul - logos Spirited Soul - thymos Appetitive Soul - eros Plato The Three-Part Soul

7. who blended Plato’s ideas to Christianity “Soul longs to be reunited with God.” St. Augustine The Yearning Soul

8. Matter and Form (Body and Soul) Physical and Spiritual irrational beings. “Soul is what gives form to the human body.” Thomas Aquinas The Soul as Essences

9. “I think, therefore I am.” The mind defines the self not the body. Rene Descartes Mind over Body

10. The self doesn’t really exist as a fixed thing. its just a collection of experiences happening one after another. Self continually change. David Hume Self as Impression

11. Self organizes all the thoughts or those experiences you’ve been through to come up with a clear purpose. “The self/mind actively organizes experiences into knowledge.” Immanuel Kant The Organizing Self

12. The self is not what you are dealing inside but the things that the people see in you. “ The self is not hidden inside- it is in our actions.” Gilbert Ryle We Are What We Do

13. Mind and body are inseparable. Our body is the physical representation of our self. Merleau-Ponty Embodied Self

14. Self-Reflection Which philosopher’s idea of the self resonates with you most, and why?

15. Thank You For Listening!