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- Aristotle’s psychology – what he calls the “study of the soul” (hE tEs psuchEs historia) – occupies a prominent place both in his own philosophy and in the Western philo-sophical tradition as a whole. In his own system, psychology is the culmination of metaphysics and natural science.
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May 23, 2023 · Aristotle is genuinely torn as to how to treat our psychology, which methods are best applied to it, and so on. It is commonplace to observe that Aristotle’s own apparent indecision mirrors that which has come to define the study of the mind in philosophy.
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Aristotle’s psychology – what he calls the “study of the soul” (hE tEs psuchEs historia) – occupies a prominent place both in his own philosophy and in the Western philo-sophical tradition as a whole. In his own system, psychology is the culmination of metaphysics and natural science.
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Jan 11, 2000 · He takes psychology to be the branch of science which investigates the soul and its properties, but he thinks of the soul as a general principle of life, with the result that Aristotle's psychology studies all living beings, and not merely those he regards as having minds, human beings.
Method in Psychology. These reflections on method in psychology bring into focus Aristotle’s decision to describe psychic phenomena in terms of his broader explanatory framework: he articulates his account of the soul and its faculties as special cases of his general hylomorphism.
Aristotle’s treatment of thought is both obscure in itself and hard to reconcile with the rest of his psychology. However, that should not detract from his work on psychology, which is persistently scientific in its approach. Keywords: perception, Plato, possession, psychology, soul, thought.
Paula Gottlieb. Chapter. Get access. Cite. Summary. I discuss Aristotle’s account of the psyche (soul) in book 1 chapter 13 of the Nicomachean Ethics, his further distinction between theoretical and practical thinking in Nicomachean Ethics VI 1, and the famous function argument of Nicomachean Ethics I 7.
May 6, 2019 · About this book. Follows the way in which Aristotle himself developed his treatment of behavior as one aspect of living things in general, and to show that more recent psychology seems to closely reflect his works.
