Metaphysics. Consciousness, the Self, and Personality Theory A critical survey of theories of philosophical arguments and modern psychological personality theories.

        This paper will concern itself with some main philosophical arguments and dilemmas and how they correlate with modern psychological personality theories. This survey will include dilemmas about the mind and body, the concept of the self, and inner and outer reality. Also, it will discuss six personality theorists and their scientific and philosophical developments.         Psychology, science, and philosophy are interconnected and rooted within each other. In the book Metapsychology, the author, Sam Rakover, states that …

…the same book of readings expanded on Hume's ideas, he wanted a differentiation between objectivity and subjectivity attempting to prove that '...there are certain concepts whose application within experience is presupposed by the very possibility of experience' (Olgilvy 144). It is the judgments that must conform to self-consciousness. There is room within experience for the thought of experience.         John Locke's view includes a more temporal idea. The idea that 'the sameness of a rational be