GEC001 Chapter Notes - Chapter chapter 3: Socratic Questioning, Know Thyself, Socratic Method
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The self from various perspectives: philosophy (philosophical perspective of the self) Philosophers differ in their views about the self. Their views or concepts are discussed briefly as follows. Prior the socrates, the greek thinkers, sometimes collectively called the. Pre-socratics to denote that some of them preceded socrates while others existed around socrates"s time as well, preoccupied themselves with the question of the primary substratum, arche that explains the multiplicity of things in the world. Heraclitus, and empedocles, to name a few, were concerned with explaining what the world is really made up of, why the world is so, and what explains the changes that they observed around them. After a series of thinkers from all across the ancient greek world who were disturbed by the same issue, a man came out to question something else. Unlike the pre-socratics, socrates was more concerned with another subject, the problem of the self.
