Catching Up With Aristotle  [electronic resource] : A Journey in Quest of General Psychology  /
Engelsted, Niels.author.
This Brief presents the argument for the need to re-establish the theoretical focus of general psychology in contemporary psychological research. It begins with a detailed account of the current "crisis" of psychology and our modern disconnect from general psychology. Chapters present the works of Aristotle and A.N. Leontiev, using their ideas to outline a long wanted general psychology. The general psychology delineates the four corner posts of the domain of psychology: Sentience, Intentionality, Mind, and Human Consciousness, and explains why they are all necessary but not the same. Besides a historical discussion, which aims to demonstrate how Marxism got it right, and then not, this Brief presents a new radical theory of human evolution, which credits the Adam-and-Eve story with a vital link hitherto missed by Marxism, Darwinism, and paleoanthropology. In addition, it argues why a new understanding is important in the Anthropocene Age. Catching Up with Aristotle will be of interest to psychologists, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Within Circles of History -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Heritage -- Chapter 3. The Marxist Legacy and General Psychology -- Part II: General Psychology - The Four Corners of the Puzzle -- Chapter 4. Sentience -- Chapter 5. Intentionality -- Chapter 6. Mind -- Chapter 7. The Problem of the Human Being -- Chapter 8. The Marxist Legacy -- Chapter 9. The Overlooked Dimension -- Chapter 10. The Secret of the Human Being -- Chapter 11. The Creative Double Negation and the Non-Non-Cascade -- Chapter 12. Looking Towards the Future -- Chapter 13. General Psychology at Journey's End -- A Tale of Two Cities: Author's Postscript -- Commentary 1 -- Commentary 2. .
This Brief presents the argument for the need to re-establish the theoretical focus of general psychology in contemporary psychological research. It begins with a detailed account of the current "crisis" of psychology and our modern disconnect from general psychology. Chapters present the works of Aristotle and A.N. Leontiev, using their ideas to outline a long wanted general psychology. The general psychology delineates the four corner posts of the domain of psychology: Sentience, Intentionality, Mind, and Human Consciousness, and explains why they are all necessary but not the same. Besides a historical discussion, which aims to demonstrate how Marxism got it right, and then not, this Brief presents a new radical theory of human evolution, which credits the Adam-and-Eve story with a vital link hitherto missed by Marxism, Darwinism, and paleoanthropology. In addition, it argues why a new understanding is important in the Anthropocene Age. Catching Up with Aristotle will be of interest to psychologists, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers. .
Consciousness.
Cognitive Psychology.