1. History and Overview of Psychology
Wolfgang Kohler was born in Reval, Estonia in 1887. His parents were of German decent, and shortly after he was born, the Kohler family moved to Wolfenbuttell, Germany. The importance of a good education was introduced to Kohler early in life, for his father was a schoolmaster, his sisters were nurs...
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...
Only those beliefs that are absolutely certain, in the strongest sense of the term, will survive Descartes' test, and only such beliefs, he holds, can serve as truly reliable foundations for science. ... - Descartes himself concludes on the basis of his dream argument that sense experience is an unreliable justification mechanism, and so suspends all beliefs he has formed on the basis of sensory evidence. ... So our question is: What is it that is common to all real things and common to all unreal things, that makes them what they are and different from each other? ...
Sigmund Freud was born on May 6th 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia, which is now in Czech Republic. He is the eldest of eight children born to Jacob and Amalie Freud. Because of the anti-semitic riots who were ragging in Freiberg, Freud's father, who was a wool merchant, lost his business and the whole fa...
"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to layout the primary tenets of the much debated mind/body dualistic argument from the lens of philosophers from the ancient epoch but most elaborately from Rene Descartes. The most critical account of the mind-body theory was first systematically carried out by Descartes. To him, mind and body does not only exist, they are distinct and they causally interact at the pineal gland. Through his notion of clear and distinct ideas, Descartes infers the existence of the mind as a thinking substance and the body as an extended substance; hence the two are independen...
I was cautious as I passed these youths because I sensed that they were angry and that the group lacked stability. ... With the immature individual, with a very fragile ego or sense of self and with extreme levels of persecutory anxiety the end result can be catastrophic. ...