Christian philosophy; a treatise on the human soul
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- Christian philosophy; a treatise on the human soul
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- 1898
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Christian philosophy; a treatise on the human soul
Author: Driscoll, John T. (John Thomas), b. 1866
Year: 1898
CONTENTS. I. Notion and subject-matter of Psychology. II. Sources: (a) Introspection: S. Augustine, S. Thomas; Compte, S. Mill, Spencer, Maudsley, James, Sully, Hoffding. (b) Objective aids. III. A science: Proper object, means and method: Hoffding, Lewes, Spencer, Bain, James, Ladd. IV. Difficulties: Subject-matter; method; phraseology, inadequate conceptions of man. V. Relation to other sciences: Logic, ethics, pedagogics, politics. VI. Division: (a) Psychology of soul, of mind, of will. (b) Psychology of soul and modern writers, !e. g., Sully, James, Murray, Davis, Koelpe, Hoffding, Ladd and Bowne. VII. Scholastic philosophy: Historical importance; its interest to-day; failure of modern philosophy. PROEMIUM. Question stated; method followed. CHAPTER I. SUBSTANTIALITY OF SOUL. I. Theories: (a) Transcendental view, e. g., Kant and Wundt. (b) Phenomenal view, e. g., Hume, Mill, Davis, Hoffding, Sully, Murray, James. (c) Agnostic view, e. g., Locke, Thomson, Spencer, Laing, Hamilton, Bowen. (d) Materialistic view, e. g.; Tyndall, Huxley. (e) Scholastic theory, e. g., Aristotle, S. Thomas, S. Augustine. II. Proof: (a) From analysis of notion of ^ substance: Its elements are: Being, p