Iconic Philosophers and their Perspective of the self
Socrates: Unexamined Life is not Worth Living
Plato: The Soul is Immortal
Aristotle: The soul is the Essence of the Self
St. Augustine: I am Doubting Therefore I Am
Rene Descartes: I Think Therefore I Am
John Locke: The Self is Consiousness
St. Thomas Aquinas: "Indirect" Self-knowledge
David Hume: There is No Self
Immanuel Kant: We construct The Self
Gilbert Ryle: The Self is the way People Behave
Sigmund Freud: The Self is Multilayered
Paul Churchland: The Self is the Brain
Maurice Merleau-Poty: The Self is Embodied Subjectivity
Self as a Product of Social Interaction
Sociologist Charles Horton Cooley
George Herbert Mead's Theory
Self as a Product of Modern and Post Modern Societies
William Jame's Concept of Self: The-Me Self and the I-Self
Carl Roger's Self Theory: Real and Ideal Self
Multiple Vs. Unified Self
True Vs. False Self
Self as Proactive and Agentic
Self as the Centra Archetype
Sigmund Freud, Construction of Self and Personality
Role of Erik Erikson's Theory in Understanding the Self