
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2017
Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319510873
ISBN (eBook): 9783319510880
Full citation:
, Catching up with Aristotle, Berlin, Springer, 2017


Catching up with Aristotle
a journey in quest of general psychology
SpringerBriefs in Psychology | 1
Springer
2017
Abstract
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.
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Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2017
Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319510873
ISBN (eBook): 9783319510880
Full citation:
, Catching up with Aristotle, Berlin, Springer, 2017