Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Two histories of Western psychology
- 2 Rationalism: Plato and the “just” person
- 3 Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius and the sufficient self
- 4 Christianity: St. Augustine and the incomplete soul
- 5 Materialism: Thomas Hobbes and the human machine
- 6 Empiricism: John Locke, David Hume, and experience as reality
- 7 Evolution: Charles Darwin and Homo sapiens as a work in progress
- 8 Medicine: Sigmund Freud and the world of neurotics
- 9 Re-imagining psychology
- Appendix A Plato’s nature of intelligence and other faculties
- Appendix B The search for Aunt Lena
- Index
List of figures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Two histories of Western psychology
- 2 Rationalism: Plato and the “just” person
- 3 Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius and the sufficient self
- 4 Christianity: St. Augustine and the incomplete soul
- 5 Materialism: Thomas Hobbes and the human machine
- 6 Empiricism: John Locke, David Hume, and experience as reality
- 7 Evolution: Charles Darwin and Homo sapiens as a work in progress
- 8 Medicine: Sigmund Freud and the world of neurotics
- 9 Re-imagining psychology
- Appendix A Plato’s nature of intelligence and other faculties
- Appendix B The search for Aunt Lena
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014