Understanding the Self

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Jeo Huminis
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Social Studies
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1 min • 1 pt
1. The people and places in your life are your...?
Answer explanation
Character, Heredity, and Esteem are within oneself. But Environment is one of the factors that impacted the growth of oneself socially. So the people and places that you belonged to is your environment.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
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2. Having self-awareness means that:
Answer explanation
Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards.
Choices B and C deal with self-image while D is near to self-awareness but
option A knowing what you feel is the definite description of self-awareness.
As self-awareness involved the awareness of a person's self-image and Self-image is the personal view, or mental picture, that we have of ourselves. Self-image is an “internal dictionary” that describes the characteristics of the self, including such things as intelligent, beautiful, ugly, talented, selfish, and kind.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
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3. The behavior that we show, emotions and actions are the reflection of our mind and as such is the manifestation of who we are. This is according to...
Answer explanation
Gilbert Ryle focused on the behavior that the self is the way people behave. The self is basically our behavior.
Paul Churchland focused on materialism that belief is nothing but matter exist.
Maurice Ponty focused on the ways in which our embodiment is central to our consciousness and self.
While Kant believed inner and an outer self which together form our consciousness.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
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4. Which of the following is not included in the most prevailing issues on self?
Answer explanation
If we look at the choices, option A, C, and D focused exclusively on self. While Social factor is the focused on the outside activity of self.
These are the most prevailing issues on self (1) how it is that one distinguishes oneself from others, as the object of a self-attribution; (2) whether self-awareness yields a grasp of the material or non-material nature of the self; (3) whether self-awareness yields a grasp of one’s personal identity over time; and (4) what sort of self-understanding is required for rational or free agency.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1 min • 1 pt
5. It discusses the different representations and conceptualizations of the self from various disciplines.
Answer explanation
As you begin to read about self you will encounter different perspectives, philosophical perspectives. Perspective is a point of view is a specific attitude or manner through which a person thinks about something. Notice that ideas are product of thought and many philosophers conveyed their ideas about self through what they perceived. Theories are attempts to explain a certain problem. And discipline is a branch of knowledge. So the answer is B. Philosophers discussed about self based on their perspective.
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6. He contended that ideas are not innate but rather the mind at birth is a "tabula rasa".
Answer explanation
Locke posits an “empty” mind, a tabula rasa, which is shaped by experience, and sensations and reflections being the two sources of all our ideas.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
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7. According to him the self is nothing else but a bundle of impressions.
Answer explanation
To Hume, the self is “that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have a reference… If any impression gives rise to the idea of self, that impression must continue invariably the same through the whole course of our lives, since self is supposed to exist after that manner.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
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8. It includes the aspects like individual's personality, values and morals that are usually stable and constant.
Answer explanation
Your Spiritual Self is you in your most beautiful and powerful form. It is the authentic self, the unconditioned part, the you without patterns. This is personal for each of us, so no need to get caught up on the language
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
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9. Consists of the things or objects that belong to the person or entities that a person belongs to.
Answer explanation
The material self, according to William James, pertains to the objects, places, or even people which have the label “mine”. Such possessions are viewed as extensions of individuals' identities. For instance, your clothes reflect certain aspects of your personality and you designate them as “my wardrobe”.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1 min • 1 pt
10. His ideas follow the view of Plato but adds Christian ideas.
Answer explanation
The most lasting philosophical influence on Augustine is Neoplatonism. Augustine was perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher of Antiquity and certainly the one who exerted the deepest and most lasting influence.
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