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Chapter 1. Basic Concepts of Self

The document discusses learning outcomes around understanding the self. It examines the meaning of self, its nature and importance from both eastern and western perspectives. It also explores how the mind and society interact with the self and how understanding the self can help one develop, participate meaningfully in society, and behave morally.

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Chapter 1. Basic Concepts of Self

The document discusses learning outcomes around understanding the self. It examines the meaning of self, its nature and importance from both eastern and western perspectives. It also explores how the mind and society interact with the self and how understanding the self can help one develop, participate meaningfully in society, and behave morally.

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Sarah Jane Dulnuan Nipahoy
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Learning Outcomes

At the end of the lesson, you should be able


to:

✓ analyze the need of understanding the self;

Part 1 ✓ identify the meaning of self, its nature and


importance;

✓ examine the self in eastern and western


thoughts;

✓ demonstrate better understanding of the


Basic Concepts of Filipino concept of the self; and

“Self” ✓ discuss how the mind, and society functions


and interact with society
The need for Understanding the Self
4. to help you understand local and
1. to help you acquire a positive global issues and concerns which
sense of self; continuously giving impact to your
lives;
2. to help you develop your potentials
for you to live harmoniously in the 5. enables you to develop the capacity
context of a fast changing and to think, reason and act legally and
challenging world; morally;

3. to help you participate meaningfully 6. enables you to behave in ways that will
in all endeavors as responsible fulfill your needs and goals in the
members of a global community contemporary society;
taking into account multi-cultural
perspectives; 7. To help you possess personal, civil,
and moral obligations.
Definition of Self Importance

Self is: Kant


▪ a unified being ▪ We can be responsible to ourselves
▪ We can examine what type of object the self
is and how it is constituted
▪ a condition that makes one subject of
experience distinct from all others
Thorin Klosowski
▪ one’s identity ▪ We are able to develop self-awareness and
introspection which are the starting point to
every improvement
▪ expressed in the first person

▪ a dynamic, responsive process that New York Times report


structures neural pathways according ▪ If a person collects data about himself, he
to past adolescent environment can make improvements based on the data
The Constitution of the Self Self-awareness
▪ Private self-awareness – self looking inward
at oneself (i.e. emotions, thoughts, beliefs
1. Self-knowledge and feelings)
➢ sometimes referred as self-concept
➢ Allows people to gather information and ▪ Public self-awareness – gathering information
beliefs about themselves about your self through the perception of
➢ includes self-awareness, self-esteem others
and self-deception eg. singing

Ways to learn about ourselves: Self-esteem


a. The “looking glass self” ▪ overall opinion about your self
➢ people learn about themselves through other people

b. Introspection
Contributory factors:
➢ self-examination, analyzing yourself, looking at your a. Reactions we get from people
own personality and actions, and considering your b. how we compare people to ourselves
own motivations
c. Social roles
c. Social Comparison d. Identification
➢ We compare ourselves to other people around us

d. Self-perception
▪ Good: believing you can get high grades
➢ a person's view of his or her self or of any of the ▪ Bad: feeling you can’t pass the exam
mental or physical attributes that constitute the self
The Constitution of the Self 3. Agent self

➢ executive function that allows for


2. Interpersonal self
actions
➢ can be referred as your public self ➢ this feature of the self allow us to make
choices and utilize our control in
➢ this feature of the self allows social situations and actions
communications
➢ resides over everything that involves
➢ Social roles: parts that a person plays decision making, self-control, taking
in different situations and with other charge in situations and actively
people responding
➢ Social norms: constitute the “unwritten eg. Eating junk food over healthy food
rules” that we have about how to act in
certain situations and with various
people in our lives

eg. Being quiet inside the class and noisy


in parties
• There is no one definition of self.

• Understanding the self must


continue to expand beyond the
Part 1 self, to a larger selves

• We constantly define, and re-


define ourselves.

• Knowing one’s self is a unique


SUMMARY journey…a process of
discovery…a process of growth.

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