Olivia Vogel
Introduction to philosophy
Jones
Defining the Self
Can you really interpret oneself? If so, how can one person be continuously developing and be defined for that precise amount of time? Every day you are constantly changing, some people with dispute at the fact that they never really change, that they have always been the same. To me, I believe that it is fallacious, we humans evolve over time and we learn through experiences that come our way. The self is actually a problematical concept, the destiny of the self creates so much apprehension that primarily we are “self-obsessed”. We come to face with preoccupation everywhere we look, such as self-satisfaction, self-acceptance, and self-will etc. If you were to ask a little kid “what does the self mean?” he would most likely tell you that it’s you, and who you are. Our emotions also play a big role on “the self” as well, our emotions and our mind in a way establishes how the self performs in a day to day lifestyle. For instance, if you threw someone in the middle of the war zone, most likely they will become distraught, anxious, and …show more content…
Coming to his conclusion that it must be the psychological facet of humanity that possess personal identity. Since the physical body cannot cultivate personal identification. He formulated this theory by explaining that he altercated that out senses are what import information to our perception about the world. Locke also constructed the idea of two types of knowledge: simple and complex. Simple, was the taking an object and breaking it down into the simplest for such as loud, hairy, compassionate, and active. Complex, was the object before it was broken down into the simplest form such as a dog. You can combine the simple ideas to eventually build a more complex
Introduction to philosophy
Jones
Defining the Self
Can you really interpret oneself? If so, how can one person be continuously developing and be defined for that precise amount of time? Every day you are constantly changing, some people with dispute at the fact that they never really change, that they have always been the same. To me, I believe that it is fallacious, we humans evolve over time and we learn through experiences that come our way. The self is actually a problematical concept, the destiny of the self creates so much apprehension that primarily we are “self-obsessed”. We come to face with preoccupation everywhere we look, such as self-satisfaction, self-acceptance, and self-will etc. If you were to ask a little kid “what does the self mean?” he would most likely tell you that it’s you, and who you are. Our emotions also play a big role on “the self” as well, our emotions and our mind in a way establishes how the self performs in a day to day lifestyle. For instance, if you threw someone in the middle of the war zone, most likely they will become distraught, anxious, and …show more content…
Coming to his conclusion that it must be the psychological facet of humanity that possess personal identity. Since the physical body cannot cultivate personal identification. He formulated this theory by explaining that he altercated that out senses are what import information to our perception about the world. Locke also constructed the idea of two types of knowledge: simple and complex. Simple, was the taking an object and breaking it down into the simplest for such as loud, hairy, compassionate, and active. Complex, was the object before it was broken down into the simplest form such as a dog. You can combine the simple ideas to eventually build a more complex