Western psychology
Subtitle: from the Greeks to William James
By: edited by Gardner Murphy and Lois B. Murphy.
Contributors: Murphy, Lois Barclay, 1902- joint comp.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Psychology -- History
Description: Broad introduction to the study of the human mind from early times to the present.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: western conceptions of the mind from the Greeks to the Nineteenth century -- The psychology of the Greeks. Introduction -- The Pre-Socratics; the “first principles” -- Socrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- The stoics and the epicureans: the way to live -- Marcus Aurelius -- Epicurus and his school -- Lucretius -- From the classical to the Medieval. Introduction -- The New Testament -- St. Augustine -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- Islamic psychology. Introduction -- A comparison of ancient conceptions of the mind -- The Islamic conception of the nature and functions of the soul -- Avicenna -- Averroës -- The Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Introduction -- René Descartes -- Thomas Hobbes -- John Locke -- Condillac -- David Hartley -- Jeremy Bentham -- John Stuart Mill -- Thomas Brown -- Johann Friedrich Herbart -- Physiological approaches to the mind -- Gustav Theodor Fechner -- German physiology -- Hermann von Helmholtz -- Evolutionary psychology. Introduction -- Charles Darwin -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- William James -- Retrospect.