Bumanlag, Mark Angelo U.

June 19, 2018

MR11FC2 – 1st Year

Philosophical Self according to:

“The goal of philosophy was to “Know thyself”.”
-Socrates
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
-Plato
“Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you
were going to die tomorrow.”
- St. Augustine
“We don’t encounter ourselves as isolated minds or selves, but rather always as agents
interacting with our environment.”
- Thomas Aquinas
“I think, therefore I am.”
- Rene Descartes
“I am given to myself beyond that which is given in intuition, and yet know myself, like other
phenomena, only as I appear to myself, not as I am.”
- Immanuel Kant
“There is no soul, it is an illusion created by our unfounded trust in cause and effect. Because
our consciousness is constantly changing there is no ‘self’ which remains the same.”
- David Hume