PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE SELF
1. He points out that voting in an election is a skill, not a random intuition. And like any skill, it needs to be taught
systematically to people. SOCRATES
2. Which of the following belongs under Aristotle’s concept of golden mean? CONSCIENTIOUS
3. We are born with a blank slate which is shaped by experience, and sensations and reflections being the two
sources of all our ideas. LOCKE
4. A thing cannot be unless it possesses an act of being, and the thing that possesses an act of being is thereby
rendered an essence/existence. AQUINAS
5. Justice in the human person can only be attained if the three parts of the soul are working harmoniously with
one another. PLATO
6. Sensory experience, the primary mode of knowledge, is often erroneous and must therefore be doubted.
DESCARTES
7. The body is nothing else but a machine that is attached to the minds, it is the mind that makes man a man.
DESCARTES
8. The self is nothing but a bundle of impressions. HUME
9. In the Freudian perspective, this province of the minds is the raw and savage part of personality and is guided by
the pleasure principle. ID
10. He proposed that all humans were crooked because all of us are unwitting heirs to the sins of Adam, and thus,
without God is bound to fail. AUGUSTINE
11. What are the three categories of the soul according to Aquinas? VEGETITIVE, SENSITIVE, RATIONAL
12. This is translated as “human flourishing or prosperity” and generally refers to a state of having a good indwelling
spirit or being in a contented state of being healthy. EUDAIMONIA
13. The true task of the philosopher is to know oneself. SOCRATES
14. Without the self, one cannot organize the different impressions that one gets in relation to his own existence.
KANT
15. According to Socrates, this is absolutely necessary for perfect happiness because it brings a type of happiness
that other things could never bring. VIRTUE
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE SELF
1. According to Mead, our self is biologically determined. FALSE
2. Nietzsche rejects the idea that the self is an enduring and unchanging intelligible character. TRUE
3. “I have to be in my best behavior when I am in the church.” What aspect of the self is exhibited? ME
4. Memories include experiences of pain and triumph. TRUE
5. Memories are limited to those recorded in photographs and vides. FALSE
6. This term refers to the self when the psychic identity of the physical body spreads out in the divergence of
online bodies and digital selves. PLURALIZED SELF
7. Five-year old Josh is fond of playing as a priest. He would usually wear a white blanket and a scarf that would
look like a stole, kneel in front of their bible on the altar and speak words he remembers the priests say during
Holy Masses. What stage of self-development according to Mead is Josh in? PLAY
8. The self being private means that it is the center of all experiences and thoughts that run through a certain
person. FALSE
9. According to Cooley, the self-concept begins in childhood, its development is an ongoing lifelong process. TRUE
10. Social comparison only beings about negative effects in self-esteem and self-concept. FALSE
11. According to Nietzsche, the self is made up of two components: the “I” and the “me”. FALSE
12. According to Cooley, the development of the self does not depend on accurate evaluations. TRUE
13. These are beliefs that cannot be proven to be true and sometimes can be proven false, but are, nonetheless,
necessary to sustain life. NECESSARY FICTION
14. “Do I really have to attend the ceremony? I will only be raising your hand and dictating the oath anyway? If I
can embody the code, why would I need to attend?” The previous statement shows what aspect of the self? I
15. This refers to the information about a particular person that exists on the Internet as a result of their online
activity. DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
16. The effects of self-labelling on our self-esteem depend on nature of the labels. TRUE
17. Social comparison occurs when there are no objective benchmarks on which we can rely on. TRUE
18. The quest for self-identity arose out of the development and improvement of traditional values and
communities. FALSE
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE SELF
