Psychology : Empirical and rational / Michael Maher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maher, Michael, 1860-1918, author.

Series:

Stonyhurst philosophical series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 603 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Fourth edition, re-written and enlarged.

Other Title:

Psychology

Place of Publication:

London : Longmans, Green and Co, 1900.

Summary:

"My aim here, as in the previous editions, has been not to construct a new original system of my own, but to resuscitate and make better known to English readers a Psychology that has already survived four and twenty centuries, that has had more influence on human thought and human language than all other psychologies together, and that still commands a far larger number of adherents than any rival doctrine. My desire, however, has been not merely to expound but to expand this old system; not merely to defend its assured truths, but to test its principles, to develop them, to apply them to the solution of modern problems; and to re-interpret its generalizations in the light of the most recent researches. I have striven to make clear to the student of modern thought that this ancient psychology is not quite so absurd, nor these old thinkers quite so foolish, as the current caricatures of their teaching would lead one to imagine; and I believe I have shown that not a little of what is supposed to be new has been anticipated, and that most of what is true can be assimilated without much difficulty by the old system. On the other hand, I have sought to bring the scholastic student into closer contact with modern questions; and to acquaint him better with some of the merits of modern psychological analysis and explanation. There is at least one phase of current psychological literature to which my opposition is in no way diminished--the prevalent view that the science of psychology and the philosophy of the human mind can be shut up in water-tight compartments and rendered completely independent of each other. Indeed, the now customary vehement protestations of psychologists that their works are innocent of all philosophical beliefs--If not also devoid of all metaphysical foundations--and the austere gravity with which they are wont to apologize whenever they make mention of the soul, or allude to such irrelevant matters as the possibility of a future life, the origin of the human mind, or its connection with the body, have often appeared to me liable to give rise to the suspicion that the sense of humour is incompatible with psychological eminence"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Definition and scope of psychology

Method of psychology

Classification of mental faculties

Sensation

The senses

Perception of the material world : critical sketch of the leading theories of external perception

Development of sense-perception ; Education of the senses

Imagination

Memory ; Mental association

Sensuous appetite and movement

Feelings of pleasure and pain

Intellect and sense

Conception ; Origin of intellectual ideas ; Erroneous theories

Conception ; Origin of intellectual ideas (continued)

Judgment and reasoning

Attention and apperception

Development of intellectual cognition : self and other important ideas

Rational appetency

Free-will and determinism

The emotions ; Emotional and rational language

Substantiality, identity, simplicity, and spirituality of the human soul

False theories of the ego

Monistic theories

Immortality of the soul

Soul and body

Soul and body (continued) ; Other problems

Psychology : empirical and rational.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.