The Sciences of The Soul
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- Synopsis
- "The Sciences of the Soul" is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth. Fernando Vidal traces this development through university courses and textbooks, encyclopedias, and nonacademic books, as well as through various histories of psychology. aaaaaaaaaaa Vidal reveals that psychology existed before the eighteenth century essentially as a OC physics of the soul, OCO and it belonged as much to natural philosophy as to Christian anthropology. It remained so until the eighteenth century, when the OC science of the soulOCO became the OC science of the mind. OCO Vidal demonstrates that this Enlightenment refashioning took place within a Christian framework, and he explores how the preservation of the Christian idea of the soul was essential to the development of the science. Not only were most psychologists convinced that an empirical science of the soul was compatible with Christian faith; their perception that psychology preserved the soul also helped to elevate its rank as an empirical science. Broad-ranging and impeccably researched, this book will be of wide importance in the history and philosophy of psychology, the history of the human sciences more generally, and in the social and intellectual history of eighteenth-century Europe.
- Copyright:
- 2011
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780226855882
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/11/15
- Copyrighted By:
- University of Chicago Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Psychology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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