Chapter 5 Self-Quiz

Self
. The philosophical problem of self-identity is concerned in part with what the characterizing qualities are of an identity.

. Descartes knew that he existed and would continue to exist as long as he was a "thing that thinks."

. A problem that has most concerned philosophers about identity, is how to identify an individual as the same individual when they change location.

. The self, for Kant, was also the activity of applying the rules by which we organize our experience.

. By transcendental Kant meant what was a sufficient condition for the possibility of particular experiences.

. Luce Irigaray claimed that the concept of an "essential" self was liberating and expressive, particularly when applied to women.

. Hume concluded that the idea of a self was simply a fiction.

. Malcolm X wrote, "One of the best ways to safeguard yourself from being deceived is always to form the habit of looking at things for yourself, listening to things for yourself, thinking for yourself, before you try and come to any judgment."

. Kierkegaard believed that social identity was the only relevant identity.

. Bad faith is when you refuse to acknowledge yourself as you are.

. __________ argued that we obtained the sense that our real selves were known only to ourselves, but at the same time we do not really exist except with other people.

. __________ thought that anyone who "follows the crowd" and didn't live passionately as an individual could not even be said to exist.

. __________ believes that inorder for us to interact with each other as entirely free individuals we must all embrace an "androgynous" sexuality.

. Hermann Hesse suggests that since each of us has but one body, it is assumed that each of us has a single __________ too.

. Kierkegaard deplores what he sarcastically calls "the public" and urges an end to collective identity and social roles in favor of renewed respect for the __________ .

. __________ believed that we could not rely on spatiotemporal continuity to account for the self.

. __________ believed that we knew that the self existed because of memory and consciousness.

. Which of the following is the main thesis of Locke's argument?

. Who distinguished between the "transcendental ego" (or the activity of bringing our various experiences together in accordance with the basic rules of our experience) and the "empirical ego" (or all those particular things about us that make us different people)?

. What did Sartre call a person's "projections into the future," that is, his or her ambitions, plans, intentions, hopes, and fantasies?

. In __________ a truer perspective recognizes the non-existence of the self, though existence of the non-self is an ideal understanding, which can be fully achieved only with enlightenment.

. Which philosophical tradition embodies the idea of ambition, striving to "make something of yourself," and planning for the future?

. __________ idea that memory was what constituted a self-identity was inspired by the Cartesian notion that a person's relationship to his or her own thoughts is unique.

. __________ believed that there were no set standards for self-identity, either for individuals or for people in general.

. Some feminists claim that the only way that society can repair itself and allow people to have individual identities is to establish a society without __________.

. In her memoir Crossing, American economist __________ describes the kind of transformation she experienced in the process of having her gender reassigned.

. Like Kierkegaard __________ argued that we should develop ourselves as unique individuals.

. For Kant, the __________ included all of those particular things that made us different people.

. Sartre points out that individuals can confuse themselves about their own identity, and that we often willfully confuse ourselves in what he calls __________.

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