Psychology

Psychology

Author: Maher, Michael, 1860-1918

Year: 1890

TABLE OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. Definition and Scope of Psychology . Pp. 1 — 10 Definitions of Psychology, Mind, Soul, Ego, Spirit, i seq. — Phenomenal or Empirical and Rational Psychology, 3 — Distinguished from Cosmology and Logic, 6 — From Ethics, 8 — Relation of Psychology to Physiology, 9. CHAPTER II. Method of Psychology Pp. 11 — 24 Psychology a Science, 11 — Introspective Method, 12 — Objec- tive or Supplementary Methods, 13 — Employed by Ancients, 17 — Method of Rational Psychology, ib — Diverse classes of opponents, to this view of the scope and method of Psychology, 18 — Objections of Maudsley answered, 20. CHAPTER III. Classification of Mental Faculties . . Pp. 25 — 40 Meaning of Consciousness, 25 — Meaning of Faculty, Power,. Capacity, 26 — Division of Faculties, 27 — Subdivision, 30 — Classification adopted by Aristotle, 31 — St. Thomas, 32 — Reid, Stewart, and Hamilton, 32 — Bain, 33 — Herbert Spencer, 34 — Attacks on the Faculty Hypothesis," 34— Mutual relations of the Faculties, 38— Faculty of Feeling, 39. Empirical or Phenomenal Psychology. Part I. — Sensuous Life. CHAPTER IV. Sensation Pp. 41—56 Definition of Sensation, 41 — Physiological conditions of