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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... truth , houses democracies of one stripe or another . Only the more literal - minded would require " Hellenism " to remain in Athens and express itself in the old Greek . And , since all forms of Roman arts and letters were utterly ...
... truths . Epic poetry was rich enough in metaphor to serve as a daily guide to a life . Unlike their Jewish contemporaries or their Christian suc- cessors , the Greeks of the ancient world did not possess revealed truths or a code of ...
... truth . The function of critic in the poem is taken by a goddess who leads Parme- nides toward truth by way of a dialectical method . The most important conclu- sions Parmenides reaches through close analysis are that whatever has real ...
... truths accessible if at all only to reason . Plato's debts to this line of reasoning , too , will become obvious later in this chapter . It is sufficient here to note Parmenides , along with Pythagoras , Anax- agoras , Heraclitus ...
... truth and of what can be said truthfully about anything . In its most innocent and most vexing form , the problem of knowledge is this : How can we specify what is knowable without implicitly claiming to know it ? How can we sincerely ...
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Part 2 From Philosophy to Psychology | 147 |
Part 3 Scientific Psychology | 257 |
Index of Names | 373 |
Index of Subjects | 379 |