Engaging Assessment

1. According to him, “an unexamined life is not worth living.”

- Socrates
2. In his Theory of Forms, he introduces the concept of the two worlds: the world of
forms (non-physical ideas) and the world of sense (reality).
- Plato
3. He is regarded as the Father of Modern Philosophy.
- René Descartes
4. He postulates that the human mind at birth is blank slate or tabula rasa.
- John Locke
5. He introduces the idea of eliminative materialism.
- Paul Churchland
6. He believes that the self a nothing but a collection of interconnected and
continually changing perceptions passing through the theatre of our minds.
- David Hume
7. The Phenomenology of Perception is the work of:
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
8. He believes that the mind is not the seat of self but behaviours, thus the principle
“I act, therefore I am”
- Gilbert Ryle
9. He believes that the self is the brain.
- Paul Churchland
10. The cornerstone of Socrates’ philosophy
- Know thy self
Identify the philosopher who proposed the particular view of self-presented in the first
column. Then, examine your personal view about the nature of self and indicate
whether you believe or not in that philosophical view of self. If you believe in that state
philosophy, recall an important experience you have had which relates to it. If you do
not believe, explain your disbelief. How do your experience or disbelief affect our
selfhood?
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