Search results
Dec 8, 2015 · Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841) is known today mainly as a founding figure of modern psychology and educational theory. But these were only parts of a much grander philosophical project, and it was as a philosopher of the first rank that his contemporaries saw him.
- Epistemology of Geometry
Johann Friedrich Herbart became Kant’s successor in...
- Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind
Leibniz’s place in the history of the philosophy of mind is...
- Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832–1920) is known to posterity...
- Epistemology of Geometry
Johann Friedrich Herbart ( German: [ˈhɛʁbaʁt]; 4 May 1776 – 14 August 1841) was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline. Herbart is now remembered amongst the post-Kantian philosophers mostly as making the greatest contrast to Hegel —in particular in relation to aesthetics.
Apr 30, 2024 · Johann Friedrich Herbart (born May 4, 1776, Oldenburg—died Aug. 14, 1841, Göttingen, Hanover) was a German philosopher and educator, who led the renewed 19th-century interest in Realism and is considered among the founders of modern scientific pedagogy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Abstract. This chapter is an examination of Herbart’s psychology, especially his attempt to make psychology a science. To make psychology a science meant for Herbart the application of the method of mathematics to the mental realm. What exactly the application of mathematics meant to psychology is considered closely.
Notes to Johann Friedrich Herbart. 1. For biographical accounts, see: Weiss 1928: 7, ff.; Herbart 1887a; Boring 1950. Beiser (2014) is the best intellectual biography, especially in presenting the Kantian lines of Herbart’s thought, and his critique of German Idealism (esp. 123–5). 2.
Jun 27, 2018 · Herbart held that mental processes can be described with the exactness of mathematical laws. In Herbart’s pedagogical writings each person is an individual and distinctive totality, capable of change and determination or redefinition, and therefore possessing “adaptiveness” ( Bildsamkeit).
People also ask
Who is Johann Friedrich Herbart?
How did Herbart make psychology a science?
Did Johann Friedrich Herbart use 'psychology ohne Seele'?
How did Herbart influence philosophy?
Abstract. Herbart’s attempts to apply psychology to society receive scant mention in English-language histories of psychology. In Germany, however, Herbart has long been regarded as the founder of social psychology. The background of his life and work is sketched, and the gradual extension of his individual psychology towards the social is ...