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The document summarizes the views of the self according to four philosophers: 1) Immanuel Kant believed that we have an inner self comprising our psychology and intellect, and an outer self including our senses and the physical world. 2) Gilbert Ryle and Patricia Churchland viewed the self as how one behaves, with the mind and body being unified. 3) Patricia Churchland viewed the self as the brain alone. 4) Maurice Merleau Ponty saw the self as embodied subjectivity, with the physical body being important to subjective experience.

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UTS Philosophers

The document summarizes the views of the self according to four philosophers: 1) Immanuel Kant believed that we have an inner self comprising our psychology and intellect, and an outer self including our senses and the physical world. 2) Gilbert Ryle and Patricia Churchland viewed the self as how one behaves, with the mind and body being unified. 3) Patricia Churchland viewed the self as the brain alone. 4) Maurice Merleau Ponty saw the self as embodied subjectivity, with the physical body being important to subjective experience.

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Philosopher Orientation and Philosophy View of the Self (Description)

Kant’s philosophy is often He believes that we all have


described as the golden an inner and an
middle between rationalism outer self which together
Immanuel Kant and empiricism. He didn’t form our consciousness. The
accept either of both views but inner self is comprised of our
he gave credit to both. psychological state and our
rational intellect. The
outer self includes our sense
and the physical world.

Gilbert Ryle Patricia Philosophical Behaviorism Unity of body and mind –


Churchland (Behaviorist) The self is how you behave.
One’s action is of the same
as to what the mind is
thinking. How a person
behaves is related to the
work of the mind.

Patricia Churchland Materialist – the belief that The self as the brain - When
nothing but matter exists discussing the mind, this
means that the physical
brain, and not the mind,
exists.

- He is commonly associated The self as embodied


with the philosophical subjectivity - he believed
Maurice Merleau Ponty movement the physical body to be an
called existentialism and its important part of what makes
intention to begin with an up the subjective self.
analysis of the concrete
experiences, perceptions,
and difficulties, of human
existence.

Sources:
Immanuel Kant
http://www.philosophers.co.uk/immanuel-kant.html
https://www.britannica.com/topic/transcendental-idealism
https://study.com/academy/lesson/immanuel-kants-metaphysics-of-the-self.html
Ryle
https://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_ryle.html

Churchland
http://patriciachurchland.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Churchland

Ponty
https://study.com/academy/lesson/merleau-ponty-the-self-as-embodied-subjectivity.html

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