Aristotle's Psychology.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Perhaps no writer in history has attempted so systematic and inclusive a system of psychology as that found in the works of Aristotle. It is not easy to discover this system, however, because Aristotle�s major psychological theories and observations are widely distributed in his naturalistic, political, ethical and logical treatises. His essay, On the Soul, which is often taken to be his principal work in psychology, raises some questions that are answered only in other works, and ignores any number of central issues otherwise deftly treated in still other works. -- Daniel Robinson, a distinguished historian of psychology, provides in this thoughtful and accessible book a review of Aristotle�s position on those matters that continue to animate research and theory in psychology, as well as those deeper understandings of Aristotle�s that have been overlooked in later and even contemporary psychology. He guides the reader from the broad cultural and intellectual foundations that were Aristotle�s own to the logical framework developed by Aristole and necessary for a scientific understanding of the natural world; then on to Aristotle�s richly ethological and biological perspectives on learning, memory, emotion, motivation, and finally to Aristotle�s moral and social psychology wherein persons must find their humanity and develop that form of life fit for rational beings. Across the diverse topics and methods set down in Aristotle�s extant works, Professor Robinson locates the common themes and connections which finally yield an integrated system of psychology, and one arguably richer and more realistic than those we now regard as modem and developed. In the process. Professor Robinson makes clear how all later psychological writings in Western civilization would be indebted to the broad and deep foundation laid by Aristotle. This is all accomplished in a work that is no less elegant and moving for its uncommon clarity. ISBN 9780231070027