An Intellectual History of PsychologyUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1. sep. 1995 - 392 sider An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic in its field, is now available in a concise new third edition. It presents psychological ideas as part of a greater web of thinking throughout history about the essentials of human nature, interwoven with ideas from philosophy, science, religion, art, literature, and politics. |
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... nurturing an inquiring and even skeptical mind . On the negative side , the absence of a codified body of religious principles not only compounded the ever greater problem of political unity Psychology in the Hellenic Age 17.
... skepticism is the most philosophically defensible position ( assuming such a skepticism even leaves room for a position being defensible ! ) . For a philosophy such as that of the Socratics , concerned with virtue , with government ...
... influential competing perspective . The famous Sophist , Pro- tagoras , had contended that " Man is the measure of all things , " a contention that was skeptical as to the very existence of certain Psychology in the Hellenic Age 25.
Daniel N. Robinson. that was skeptical as to the very existence of certain knowledge . It was a thesis leading to a nearly wanton subjectivism . If human knowledge is limited to our actual and possible experiences ( sensations and ...
... skeptical about perception and the world of appearances , it is also clear that Socrates and his friends were practical and realistic men who took the evidence of perception as counting for something . Perception , they reasoned ...
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Part 2 From Philosophy to Psychology | 147 |
Part 3 Scientific Psychology | 257 |
Index of Names | 373 |
Index of Subjects | 379 |