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    The document summarizes the philosophical views of Descartes, Locke, and Kant on the concept of self. Descartes believed that "I think therefore I am" and that the essence of self is as a thinking entity, distinct from the physical body. Locke viewed the self as one's consciousness and personal identity constructed from sense experiences and memory. Kant argued that the self actively organizes and synthesizes thoughts and perceptions to construct its own reality and make experience intelligible.

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    The document summarizes the philosophical views of Descartes, Locke, and Kant on the concept of self. Descartes believed that "I think therefore I am" and that the essence of self is as a thinking entity, distinct from the physical body. Locke viewed the self as one's consciousness and personal identity constructed from sense experiences and memory. Kant argued that the self actively organizes and synthesizes thoughts and perceptions to construct its own reality and make experience intelligible.

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    The document summarizes the philosophical views of Descartes, Locke, and Kant on the concept of self. Descartes believed that "I think therefore I am" and that the essence of self is as a thinking entity, distinct from the physical body. Locke viewed the self as one's consciousness and personal identity constructed from sense experiences and memory. Kant argued that the self actively organizes and synthesizes thoughts and perceptions to construct its own reality and make experience intelligible.

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    REFLECTION

    DẺSCARTES: I THINK THEREFORE I AM


    “I think therefore I am” is the keystone of Descartes’ concept of self. For him, the act of
    thinking about the self of being self-conscious is in itself proof that there is a self. He is
    confident that no rational person will doubt his or her own existence as a conscious, thinking
    entity while we are aware of thinking about ourselves. For Descartes, this is the essence of the
    human self a thinking entity that doubts, understands, analyzes, questions, and reasons.
    He contends further that if man reflects thoughtfully, he will realize that there are two
    dimensions of the human self: the self as a thinking entity and the self as a physical body. In
    particular, he introduces the idea of the thinking self (or soul) as non-material, immortal,
    conscious being, and independent of the physical laws of the universe. In contrast, the physical
    body is a material, mortal, non-thinking entity, fully governed by the physical laws of nature. In
    other words, the soul and the body are independent of one another, and each can exist and
    function without the other. The essential self the self as a thinking entity is distinct from the self
    as a physical body. Simply put, the thinking self can exist independently of the physical body.

    JOHN LOCKE: THE SELF IS CONSCIOUSNESS


    For John Locke, the human mind at birth is tabula rasa or a blank state. He feels that the self,
    or personal identity, is constructed primarily from sense experiences or more specifically, what
    people see, hear, smell, taste, and feel. These experiences shape and mold the self throughout a
    person’s life. For Locke, conscious awareness and memory of previous experiences are the keys
    to understanding the self. Locke believes that the essence of the self is its conscious awareness of
    itself as a thinking, reasoning, and reflecting identity. He contends that consciousness
    accompanies thinking and makes possible the concept people have of self. Self-consciousness is
    necessary to have a coherent personal (self) identity or knowledge of the self as a person.
    Consciousness is what makes identity of a person similar different situations.
    At this point, Locke is proposing that people could use the power of reason to gain knowledge
    and consequently use this knowledge to understand experiences. Knowledge is based on careful
    observation of experiences. Reason plays an important role in helping to figure out the
    significance of sense experience and to reach intelligent conclusions. Thus, using the power of
    reason and introspection enables one to understand and achieve accurate conclusions about the
    self (or personal identity).

    IMMANUEL KANT: WE CONSTRUCT THE SELF


    For Immanuel Kant, it is the self that makes experiencing an intelligible world possible
    because it is the self that is actively organizing and synthesizing all of our thoughts and
    perceptions. The self, in the form of consciousness, utilizes conceptual categories which he calls
    transcendental deduction of categories, to can be investigated scientifically. Kant believes that
    the self is an organizing principle that makes a unified and intelligible experience possible. It is
    metaphorically above or behind sense experience, and it uses the categories of our mind to filter,
    order, relate, organize and synthesize sensations into a unified whole. In other words, the self-
    construct its own reality, actively creating a world that is familiar, predictable, and most
    significantly, mine. The self is the product of reason, a regulative principle, because the self
    regulates experience by making unifies experiences possible. The self transcends experience
    because the mind can grasp aspects of reality which are not limited to the senses. Through
    rationality, people are able to understand certain abstract ideas that have no corresponding
    physical object or sensory experience.

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