The principles of psychology. Vol I.
"When, in 1855, the First Edition of The Principles of Psychology was issued, it had to encounter a public opinion almost universally adverse. The Doctrine of Evolution everywhere implied in it, was at that time ridiculed in the world at large, and frowned upon even in the scientific world. Nat...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
D Appleton & Co.,
1910.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Ebsco PsychBooks.
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "When, in 1855, the First Edition of The Principles of Psychology was issued, it had to encounter a public opinion almost universally adverse. The Doctrine of Evolution everywhere implied in it, was at that time ridiculed in the world at large, and frowned upon even in the scientific world. Naturally, therefore, the work, passed over, or treated with but small respect, by reviewers, received scarcely any attention; and its contents remained unknown save to the select few. The great change of attitude towards the Doctrine of Evolution in general, which has taken place during the last ten years, has made the Doctrine of Mental Evolution seem less unacceptable; and one result has been that the leading: conceptions set forth in the First Edition of this work, have of late obtained considerable currency. The five parts of which this work consists, though intimately related to each other as different views of the same great aggregate of phenomena, are yet, in the main, severally independent and complete in themselves. The data of psychology and The inductions of psychology are the first two parts. The General Synthesis, setting out with an abstract statement of the relation subsisting between every living organism and the external world, and arguing that all vital actions whatever, mental and bodily, must be expressible in terms of this relation; proceeds to formulate, in such terms, the successive phases of progressing Life, considered apart from our conventional classifications of them. The Special Synthesis, after exhibiting that gradual differentiation of the psychical from the physical life which accompanies the evolution of Life in general, goes on to develop, in its application to psychical life in particular, the doctrine which the previous part sets forth: describing the nature and genesis of the different modes of Intelligence, in terms of the relation which obtains between inner and outer phenomena. The Physical Synthesis is the final part"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | Includes appendix. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 625 pages). |