Republic of the Philippines

UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PHILIPPINES

University Town, Northern Samar
NSTP-MAIN CAMPUS
SY: 2020-2021

Understanding the self

(Module 1-4)

NOTARTE, JASPHER NOTADO

BS RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY 1-B

 Module 1
LET US TAKE A BREAK:
Watch a clip from Disney Pixars Inside out animated film and compose a short
reflection about the film.

The inside out movie is a movie that portrays the human different emotion inside our
mind. The joy, sadness, anger, fear, the
disgust, throughout the movie the
screenplay extrapolates the message
implicitly echoed among the characters.
The core emotions are trainable, they
are changeable they are constructed in
specific context, they are changeable,
flexible & playful, they are
interchangeable, and no emotion fixed.
By the portrayal of the movie with regards on our emotion that the human emotions are
learned emotions that are acquired throughout the time and our experiences as we
face our day-to-day life. The core emotions of human beings are the joy, sadness,
anger, fear and disgust were this emotions are learned emotions end exhibit themselves
in one's life and control the humans mind.

On the movie you can observed on the scene the core memories of the character
are mostly compose of happy memories and on us most of the happy memories that we
have were also the happy memories. and the most unforgettable event or moment of
our life but it should not be, since we have different emotions our core memories should
compose of different emotions just like in the last part of the movie were the saddest
moment of riley is included in the core memories because it is also one of the
unforgettable memories that she had.
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS. EXPLAIN EACH OF THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES:
I AM THE WISEST MAN ALIVE, FOR I KNOW ONE THING, AND THAT IS, THAT I
KNOW NOTHING.-(SOCRATES) PLATO, THE REPUBLIC
Socrates admits his ignorance, implicitly attacking pretenders to knowledge
namely the sophists, who were paid teachers of rhetoric, and from whom the earliest
philosophers struggled to distinguish themselves. Socrates never took payment for his
teaching. More generally this is the sense in which Socrates claims the oracle named
him as the “wisest”: by knowing his own ignorance, and not pretending to know what
he cannot, he is capable of learning of becoming wise. He is therefore the wisest of his
countrymen... precisely by knowing the limits of his wisdom, and not claiming to be
able to teach what cannot be taught. Nevertheless Socrates has a number of positive
ethical and methodological doctrines, about the nature of the gods and the good and
being itself; but the idea is that these are derived from honest questioning with an
interlocutor, and finding what “language itself” has to say if it is to make any sense;
these doctrines emerge dialectically, as it were organically, rather than being disclosed
as though they were always known by him to be true.

ALL OUR KNOWLEDGE BEGINS WITH THE SENSES, PROCEEDS THEN TO THE
UNDERSTANDING AND ENDS WITH REASON. THERE IS NOTHING HIGHER THAN
REASON.”
-IMMANUEL KANT, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Our mind is every active in its interpretation of what we sense through our very
own experience, and this is very necessary in order for us to interpret our observation
out of our senses into knowledge, through our understanding that sharpen through
onetime of using our senses in the environment where we living with our experience.
After we understand things, we are able to reason out or make our own conclusions or
insights about it. This quotation of Kant is about the stages or a practical reasoning with
the existence of moral law, which place moral duty above the pursuit of happiness.
And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am
not the assemblage of limbs we call the human body; I am not subtle penetrating
air distributed throughout all these members; I am not a wind, a fire, a vapor, a
breath or anything at all that I can imagine. I am supposing all these things to be
nothing. Yet I find, while so doing, that I am still assured that I am still something.
- Rene Descartes, Mediations on First Philosophy

The author convey the character's longing for something he do not possess. He
keep on comparing what he got to something else to which only made him blind for who
he truly is. Until, along the way of his longing, he finally realize he's got something in
him he couldn't figure out yet nor he can compare with something else for he is more
than anything else.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you
will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you, perhaps you will
thenceforth avoid falling ill.
- Sigmund Freud, Character and Culture
If you truly know yourself, you will never doubt of things about yourself and your
doings especially that most of us is insecure to others for having the characteristics that
we do not have in ourselves and we have many flaws to be ashamed of. However, in
order for us to be strong and be vibrant from other we must accept who we are first to
avoid self-doubts and falling apart.

“I discover that there are other minds in misunderstanding what other people say
and do.
- Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of the Mind
In our mind and action, it is always our mind that wins because it is the most
powerful part of our body and it controls our actions and what we do, but there are
instances that our body could not communicate well to our mind to the
misunderstanding starts to show up and do things that are not according to our minds
desires.
 Whether it’s a question of my body, the natural world, the past, birth or
death, the question is always to know how I can be open to phenomena that
transcend me and that, nevertheless, only exist to the extent that I take them up
and live them.
- Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
On this phenomenology of perception, As I understand that it most explains what
is happening around you that includes your own perception to a certain object and your
judgement in a logical interpretation presented by your sensory perceptions.
Perceptions in not a pure sensation nor a pure interpretation because it is our
consciousness that processed our sense and also the way we reason out around
certain things in life that surrounds us, whether or not thoughts can become
unconscious may depends on how we can express it and use it in a situations that we
may encounter.

2.) DISCUSSION. ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

A. COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE ELEMENTS OF THE MIND ACCORDING TO

PLATO AND THE LIFE OF ST. AUGUSTINE.
For Plato, self is contained of three elements which are the appetitive, spiritual
and the mind, these elements is refers also as the nous which means the conscious
awareness of the self that control the affairs of the self. In addition, for St. Augustine the
development of the self is achieved through the self-presentation and self-realization.
The self-realization is only achieved through conversation to the faith.

B. DIFFERENTIATE THE CONCEPTS OF THE SELF ACCORDING TO DESCARTES

AND THAT OF LOCKE.ANS:
In Descartes explanation about the self-concept, he stated that he not be able to
believe of his personal sense of perception, in fact started to doubt everything. It means
that he cannot believe of what he saw or hear in present situations, which he always
doubts it. Likewise, of his example of dreaming about that would make you happy or
intense of the circumstances and after realizing that it was only a dream. While John
Locke explanation of the self-concept, self-concept has a sense perception through
his/her everyday experience. This perception is changing from one individual to another.
C. FOR HUME, WHAT IS IT THAT MAKE YOUR PERCEPTIONS INACCESSIBLE TO
ME AND VICE VERSA?
Cause we do not have the same mind with another person. Therefore, we have
different perception with one another about particular things in our surrounding.
Perception means the way that you notice or understand something using one of your
senses.

D. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CRITICISMS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT

AGAINST FREUD AND PSYCHOANALYSIS?
Freud received criticism on his theory because of his theory of human nature and
because of its overly theoretical and abstract style of argument. In addition, I think it’s
because of Freud's religion.

3. KEY TERMS. LIST SOME TERMINOLOGIES ASSOCIATED WITH EACH

PHILOSOPHER. BRIEFLY DEFINE OR DESCRIBE EACH TERM.

Philosopher Key Terms Definition

SOCRATES "I know what I do not Socrates explained that only a self-
know" controlled man will be capable on examining
others to see what a person knows and think
he knows, whether there are things, which
he thinks he knows, but actually, he does
not really.

AUGUSTINE Self-realization Self-realization it will only achieved through

conversation to the faith, therefore it is
believe that the self-realization is based on
the Religions convictions and beliefs.

DESCARTES Human Rationality According to Descartes, this means that

enable to understand the self; we need a
reason in every situation in order to evaluate
our thoughts and actions.

HUME impressions Hume said that the ideas are derived from
impressions; it means that all we know about
ourselves are just bundle or temporary
impressions.

KANT Transcendental Unity His theory explains that being the self is not
of Apperception. in the body, it is outside the body and even
 outside the qualities of the body meaning
transcendent.

FREUD Topographical model Topographical model this concept means

that we are doing something without any
Structural model reason even we know what are the
disadvantages or consequences of it, but we
are not really understand why we still doing
it. Structural model it is similar to the
disintegration of the self in topographical
model, this model will also represent the self
in three different agencies, the Id, Ego and
the Super ego.

MERLEAU- Phenomenology of This explain the perception of the self that

PONTY Perception involves in three dimensions, the empiricist
take on perceptions, idealist intellectual
alternative and the synthesis of both
positions.
 MODULE 2

TAKE A BREAK AND WRITE A REFLECTIVE REACTION ON WHAT COMES INTO

YOUR MIND ABOUT THE WORD “MASKARA”.

Basically when we are all as on what comes into our mind first if we hear the word
mascara, the first thing that comes into our mind is a mask. A mask that represents
ourselves when we are facing the society and having commemoration with other
person. Every person do wear mask on themselves because they are trying to hide
what they really are and proved the society that they are incorporating and beyond
someone’s expectation but behind that there is always a doubt, and various problems
like rejection, failure and discrimination, Despite of all uncertainty we have we still prove
that we are what we are that people do expect from us.

Even me I could say that I am wearing that mascara in order for me to the pains
and rejection that I could feel whenever people starts to expect on me. I was fill with
explanation and complement from other, some of them said that I am good enough to
do various things but behind that, there is doubt in me, there is doubt that starts to kill
me little by little and would broke me from to me to fire. When I am with other person, I
tried hard to show that I am not weak, that I am happy and I am beyond their
expectations but the truth is that I am wearing a mascara and hide to them what I am
really is.
 MODULE 3
LEARNING TASK ASSESSMENT:
CONCEPT MAP. CREATE AN ORGANIZED DIAGRAM THAT CONNECTS ALL
OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS: ANTHROPOLOGY

COMMUNITY
CULTURE
HUMAN BEINGS
NORMATIVE ORIENTATION
RITUALS
SELF
SELF-AWARENESS
SOCIAL ISSUES Self Human beings
TRIBES

Community

Culture Self-awareness
Tribes

Social issues
Rituals

Normative Orientation

True or False. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the statement is
incorrect.

A. __TRUE____
B.__TRUE____
C.____FALSE__
D.____TRUE__
E. ___TRUE___
 MODULE 4

LET’S TAKE A BREAK!

SEE THIS FILM TITLED “SPLIT” DIRECTED BY "M. NIGHT" SHYAMALAN,

ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER; DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE WHILE
WATCHING THE FILM. ENJOY

Split is about three girls are kidnapped by a man with dissociative identity disorder
(DID). I have to say that this movie does not represent what DID really is and how
people who struggle with it are, mainly because this movie gets a bit too fantastical
sometimes. It does not try to be strictly realistic though, so it is an awesome thriller
anyway.

The movie gives you chills since the very start with an awesome acting by James
McAvoy and some seriously good still scenes. The overall scenes make you have a
weird feeling; something is succeed to transfer to the viewer that you probably will not
be able to describe. That makes this thriller stand out in a good way. Maybe split makes
you unrealistic representation of dissociative identity disorder, and that can be a big
turnoff, but this is a great movie nonetheless.

M. Night Shyamalan is one of those filmmakers that you either love or hate, and I
definitely love this his work. However, I stopped watching him after the happening
(which was really quite a terrible movie. No comment on The Last Airbender).

In addition, I can say that I really enjoyed this movie. The main character was really
written and his acting was 100 percent believable. This story line is frightening because
there is reality to the condition that plagues this man. He is a man that have multiple
personalities. The script is not predictable. You will be on the edge of your seat the
entire time. The one outstanding female role is well played and this young lady exhibits
a range of past. The movie comes together very well and the flash backs are not a
deterrent.

LET’S TAKE A BREAK!

WATCH PIXAR’S MOVIE TITLED INSIDE OUT AND WRITE A REFLECTIVE

REACTION ANCHORING TO WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED IN THIS MODULE.
Inside out movie is a movie that portrays the human different emotion inside our
mind. The joy, sadness, anger, fear, the disgust, throughout the movie the screenplay
extrapolates the message implicitly echoed among the characters. The core emotions
are trainable, they are changeable they are constructed in specific context, they are
changeable, flexible & playful, they are interchangeable, and no emotion fixed. By the
portrayal of the movie with regards on our emotion that the human emotions are learned
emotions that are acquired throughout the time and our experiences as we face our
day-to-day life. The core emotions of human beings are the joy, sadness, anger, fear
and disgust were these emotions are learned emotions end exhibit themselves in one's
life and control the humans mind.

On the movie you can observed on the scene the core memories of the character
are mostly compose of happy memories and on us most of the happy memories that we
have were also the happy memories. and the most unforgettable event or moment of
our life but it should not be, since we have different emotions our core memories should
compose of different emotions just like in the last part of the movie were the saddest
moment of riley is included in the core memories because it is also one of the
unforgettable memories that she had.
LEARNING ASSESSMENT:

Multiple Choices. Encircle the letter of your chosen answer.

1. It refers to the ‘self’ as the pure ego.

A. “I” b. “Me”

2. He was among the first who coined the term ‘self-esteem’.

a. George Berkeley B. WILLIAM JAMES

3. He proposed that ideal self is one’s aspirations to become.

a. Mischel B. ROGERS

4. He contends that a person has multiple rather than unified selves.

A. GERGEN b. Freud

5. The differentiated model of self is stating the presence of

a. Permanent reactions B. TEMPORARY REACTIONS.