G-PSYC101 MMA11 UNDERSTANDING THE SELF 1st Sem ( 2023-2024 ) - Self from Western Philosophical Perspectives - DLSU-D College/GS

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• He is the Father of Modern Philosophy and the first modern rationalist. He believes that the mind is separate from the body. The mind, that is  a thinking but non-extended thing,  is completely different from the body which is a non-thinking thing. Therefore, their existence can be independent from one another. Descartes is also known  for his principle of "cogito ergo sum", "I think therefore I am."  To Descartes, the self is a combination of two distinct entities, the cogito or thing that thinks (the mind) and the extenza (the extension of the mind which is the body). This further presupposes that when a man starts doubting, he is thinking which leads him to conclude that he exists. Descartes also believes that man's mind has already innate ideas or pure ideas (known as  ("priori") which are prerequite to learning additional facts ( Ariola, 2018)

• He is the Father of Modern Philosophy and the first modern rationalist. He believes that the mind is separate from the body. The mind, that is  a thinking but non-extended thing,  is completely different from the body which is a non-thinking thing. Therefore, their existence can be independent from one another. Descartes is also known  for his principle of "cogito ergo sum", "I think therefore I am."  To Descartes, the self is a combination of two distinct entities, the cogito or thing that thinks (the mind) and the extenza (the extension of the mind which is the body). This further presupposes that when a man starts doubting, he is thinking which leads him to conclude that he exists. Descartes also believes that man's mind has already innate ideas or pure ideas (known as  ("priori") which are prerequite to learning additional facts ( Ariola, 2018).

• He is the Father of Modern Philosophy and the first modern rationalist. He believes that the mind is separate from the body. The mind, that is  a thinking but non-extended thing,  is completely different from the body which is a non-thinking thing. Therefore, their existence can be independent from one another. Descartes is also known  for his principle of "cogito ergo sum", "I think therefore I am."  To Descartes, the self is a combination of two distinct entities, the cogito or thing that thinks (the mind) and the extenza (the extension of the mind which is the body). This further presupposes that when a man starts doubting, he is thinking which leads him to conclude that he exists. Descartes also believes that man's mind has already innate ideas or pure ideas (known as  ("priori") which are prerequite to learning additional facts ( Ariola, 2018).

• Brooks (2004) as cited in Ariola, said that Kant promoted the concept of the two dimensional self: the inner self and the outer self. The idea is in part a response to the earlier problems on the location of the non-material soul in space that was claimed by some philosophers. The inner self is comprised of our psychological state and our rational intellect. The outer self includes our sense and the physical world. In the inner self, there is apperception or processing of idea and/or experience wherein it is assimilated to the body of ideas that one already possesses. Kant termed the inner self as empirical self-consciousness. He believes that man is endowed with mental faculties or cognitive mechanisms called MIND that actively synthesizes and organizes (CONSTRUCT) the sensations and impressions to form knowledge from their different experiences.