UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

GROUP 2
 Geneblazo, Abegail
 Mangsi, Melody
 Muñoz, Ruel
 Pallang, Elyn
 Peang, Jay-ann
 Sianen, Kifanay
 Wassig, Jaytee
 PLATO 4 2 8 B. C

Plato was an Athenian philosopher during

the Classical period in Ancient Greece,
founder of the Platonist school of thought,
and the Academy, the first institution of
higher learning in the Western world.
 T H E O RY O F H U M A N NAT U R E
 The Tripartite Structure of the Soul (Having encountered the social
self Confucianism, the Divine of Hinduism, and no-self of Buddhism, we
come to dualism)

 Plato is a DUALIST, both IMMATERIAL MIND (Soul) and MATERIAL

BODY.
 He believed the soul exists before birth and after death.

 He believed that the soul or mind attains knowledge of the forms, as

opposed to the senses.
Influenced by the wise pronouncements of Socrates,
Plato proposed his own philosophy of the self.

He started on the examination

of the self as a unique experience.
The experience will eventually
better understand the core of the
self which he called PSYCHE.
 PSYCHE

Word for the place where your thoughts

come from.

Not your actual brain, but whatever it is

that generates all of your thoughts and
emotions.
3 ELEMENTS
OF
PSYCHE
1. APPETITIVE ELEMENT

One’s desires,
pleasures, physical
satisfactions,
comforts, etc.
2. SPIRITED ELEMENT
part of the psyche that
is excited when given
challenges, or fights
back when agitated, or
fights for justice when
unjust practices are
evident.
3. MIND
- The most superior of all
the elements he called nous.
- NOUS is the conscious
awareness of the self. It
controls the affairs of the
self.
- It decides, analyses, thinks
ahead, proposes what is best,
and rationally controls both
the appetitive and spirited
elements of the psyche.
 EXAMPLE
 College students want to hang out with their
friends, spend time on computer games, eat the
favorite food, do thrilling activities that will
excite the whole gang.

 Satisfies the APPETITIVE ELEMENT

However, when professors throw challenging
projects and assignments that would require
tremendous amount of time and effort.

 SPIRITED ELEMENT kicks in to face the

challenges head on.
All these are going on because the
MIND or the NOUS is mobilizing
these pursuits according to the
quality of the NOUS a person has.
 REFERENCES
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 Understanding the Self Book

 https://www.slideshare.net/yihijon/pdf-download-understanding-plato-opus-book-online?qid=d84032da-5d00-43fe-b366-
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