Explain why it is important to understand the nature of the self. Discuss Socrates’s and Plato’s theories of the immortal soul. Describe Saint Augustine’s synthesis of Plato and Christianity. 3.4...

Explain why it is important to understand the nature of the self. Discuss Socrates’s and Plato’s theories of the immortal soul. Describe Saint Augustine’s synthesis of Plato and Christianity. 3.4 Discuss Descartes’s modern perspective on the self. Elucidate Locke’s theory that all knowledge originates in direct sense experience.