PSYCO303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: On The Soul, Consistency, Physiological Psychology
12 Dec 2018
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Plato"s student - some would say the student exceeded the master. He is especially important in psychology as the person who first located psychological faculties in the natural sciences: he basically invented psychology. Often changes his mind and contradicts himself. Tried to be a very systematic thinker. Drew well defined and logically consistent distinction between categories so that all things could be classified in a well-motivated way based on their nature. He organized the living things into a hierarchy by noting that they had different abilities. Plants have the ability of self nutrition. Animals have the power of self nutrition & movement and sensation. Humans have the power of self nutrition, movement and sensation, & On the soul is one of the most important contributions with the implicit claim that the soul had a physiological basis. Discusses emotions, sensations, and memories as conditions of. Got around plato"s problem by separating potential form from actual the soul ideas.
