Download e-book for kindle: Catching Up With Aristotle: A Journey in Quest of General by Niels Engelsted

By Niels Engelsted

This short provides the argument for the necessity to re-establish the theoretical concentration of normal psychology in modern mental study. It starts with an in depth account of the present “crisis” of psychology and our sleek disconnect from basic psychology. Chapters current the works of Aristotle and A.N. Leontiev, utilizing their rules to stipulate a protracted sought after basic psychology. the overall psychology delineates the 4 nook posts of the area of psychology: Sentience, Intentionality, brain, and Human realization, and explains why they're all precious yet now not an analogous. along with a ancient dialogue, which goals to illustrate how Marxism received it correct, after which no longer, this short offers a brand new radical idea of human evolution, which credit the Adam-and-Eve tale with an important hyperlink hitherto overlooked by means of Marxism, Darwinism, and paleoanthropology. furthermore, it argues why a brand new knowing is critical within the Anthropocene Age. 
Catching Up with Aristotle could be of curiosity to psychologists, undergraduate and graduate scholars, and researchers. 

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