Philosophies of the self

 The self could mean your own identity and what makes you who you are. Personality and soul are what builds a person's self-identity and knowing your own is what makes you a real "person".  Plato's concept of the self consists of what makes a true self of a human is a rational soul. For a person to have a real self-identity is to have a soul as it is the highest form of cognition from Plato's concept. As we die the soul separates from our body. The body will rot but the soul will live on. A rational soul will continue to live through other people's memories as its deeds will continue to be remembered. But a body without a soul is already dead as an empty shell is nothing without its contents.