 The Masks We Wear

 Materials
 Paper plates (at least 3 for each person)
 Magazines or newspapers
 Pencils or pens, coloured markers/felt pens
 Procedure
 Begin with a discussion about why people wear masks.
 Ask participants to think about the masks they wear and how they change daily.
Provoke thought about how they act at home, school, and social events and around
friends, boys, girls, strangers, teachers, sports coaches and others.
 Hand out the materials and have each participant decorate three masks, with each
mask representing how he/she presents himself/herself most often.
 When everyone is finished, ask them to discuss their masks and how they change
from day to day and situation to situation. If you use craft (paddle pop) sticks,
participants can attach them to their masks so they can hold the masks up to their
faces when describing the different situations in which they wear them.
 SOCRATES (469-399 BC):
KNOW YOURSELF
Born in Athens and Married with
several children
He also known as the market
Philosopher
Socrates believed that the value
of self-knowledge consisted in
one’s ability to recognize the
limits of what they know, which,
Socrates ultimately thought, was
nothing. In the centuries since,
thinkers who have tried to
discern the nature of the self
have come to radically different
conclusions.
 Plato believed that humans could
be broken down into 3 parts: the
body, the mind and the soul. The
body is the physical part of the
body that is only concerned with
the material world, and through
which we are able to experience
the world we live in. it wants to
experience self-gratification. It is
mortal, and when it dies, it is
truly dead. The mind is directed
towards the heavenly realm of
Ideas, and is immortal. It is with
our minds that we are able to
understand the eternal world of
the Forms. When it 'dies' it
returns to the realm of Ideas. The
soul is the driving force of the
body, that it is what gives us our
identity.
 Augustine, the quest to find God and to
find himself were both solved in a
profound moment of recognition that led
him deeply inward. In that interior place,
there is no concern about “What will
people think? What will happen if…?” but
only the deep desire for God, for Beauty,
for Truth. In turning inward, Augustine
not only discovers himself, but also
creates himself, as if suddenly giving
sunlight and water to a stunted and long-
neglected seedling. When he was living
“outside himself,” there was very little of
Augustine to find. The journey inward
creates depths of self that did not exist
before. Turner calls The Confessions “the
story of the making of a soul, not of its
rediscovery.”
 Descartes thought that the self is
a thinking thing distinct from the
body. His first famous principle
was " Cogito, ergo sum", which
means I think, therefore I am."
Although the mind and body are
physically together as a whole,
the mind and body are mentally
independent and serve their own
function. He was convinced that
we must use our own mind and
thinking abilities to investigate,
analyze, experiment and develop
our own well- reasoned
conclusions.It is also important to
doubt as far as possible all things
in order to become a real seeker
for the truth.
 Locke proceeds and he thinks
memory is the basis of every
idea. There are simple ideas in
brains that form impressions
that are associated with other
ideas and complex ideas are
formed. Notion of substances
and relations amongst things are
complex ideas that form from
minds activity. Locke rejects
thinking, learning or knowledge.
The self Locke has perceived is
one with complex ideas,
perceptions and things being
perceived by different sense
data. This is how ideas form
when it comes to Locke.
 Therefore all science can
go down the drain.
Reality becomes
perception and ideas and
therefore subjective. The
self for Hume is a bundle
of perception conceiving
one after another so
rapidly that it is not
understandable.
 Kant explains his theory
by asking us to eliminate
everything from the world
but the only thing you
won’t be able to eliminate
from your mind is going to
be space. Space or
location always remains.
The other thing you will
never be able to remove is
time. It cannot stop no
matter what. These things
make Kant’s perception
for him. They are not in
the world but they are a
part of the self.
  Super ego
Each stage is processed through
Freud’s concept of the human mind as a three
tier system consisting of the superego, the ego,
and the id. The super ego functions at a
conscious level. It serves as a type of screening
center for what is going on. It is at this level that
society and parental guidance is weighed against
personal pleasure and gain as directed by ones
id. Obviously, this puts in motion situations ripe
for conflict.
 Ego
Much like a judge in a trial, once
experiences are processed through the superego
and the id they fall into the ego to mediate a
satisfactory outcome. Originally, Freud used the
word ego to mean a sense of self, but later
revised it to mean a set of psychic functions such
as judgment, tolerance, reality testing, control,
planning, defense, synthesis of information,
intellectual functioning, and memory.
 Id
The egocentric center of the human
universe, Freud believed that within this one
level, the id is constantly fighting to have our way
in everything we undertake.
 He Believes that
man is a free agent
, capable of making
a decision for
himself
 His philosophy
centers and
revolves around the
inherent dignity of
a human being
 As free agent , man
is gifted with
reason and free will
 The only way by which we
can know how the mind is
working is through the
behavior of the person,
hence we can only know a
person through how a man
behaves, their tendencies
and reactions in a certain
circumstances.
 Known for his
Eliminative Materialism
 The term mind , our
moods, emotions,
actions , consciousness
are deeply affected by
state of our brain.
 By manipulating certain
parts of our brain , our
feelings, actions and
physical state are
successfully altered
 To be a self is to be more
than one’s body it
includes all the things
that I will do with my
body, how I will act on it
and how I will make it act
in consonance with other
human beings.
 I 'am the sum of of all
that I make my body do.
 DAY 1: WHAT WILL BE BEST DESCRIBE YOUR OVER
ALL EMOTION TODAY?
 DAY 2: WHAT CHARACTERSTICS DO YOU THINK
YOU NEED TO IMPROVE TODAY?
 DAY 3: WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
TODAY?
 DAY4 : WHAT IS BIGGEST REGRET FOR THE DAY?
 DAY5: WHY DID WAKE UP TODAY? FOR / BECAUSE I
______
 DAY 6: WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST CONTRIBUTION
TO THE WORLD TODAY?
 DAY 7 : WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE