PERSPECTIVES
Philosophical
Learning Objectives
We create an
illusion of the self.
SOCRATES
• Know Thyself
• Question Everything
• Only the Pursuit of Goodness Bring Happiness
• Socratic Method: Question and Answer;
Leads Students to think for Themselves
• His philosophy of man brings together wisdom of the Greek philosophy and
the divine truths contained in the scripture.
• The absolute and immutable is the Living God, the Creator of the entire
universe.
• To love God means to love one’s fellowmen, and to love one’s fellowmen
means never to do any harm to another.
2. External Self - made up of ourselves and the physical world where the
representation of objects
The child is the
father of a man.
--Sigmund Freud
SIGMUND FREUD
• The self continues from childhood to adulthood
• Personality is determined by childhood experiences
• Personality is largely unconscious
• Consciousness, the world, and the human body as a perceiving thing are
intricately intertwined and mutually "engaged”.