PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Precautionary Statement, Jeremy Bentham, Real Image
23 Feb 2017
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Can trace many intellectual western traditions to the greeks. Earliest hints of naturalistic psychology are found in the greek. Earliest greek philosophers interested in the nature of the universe (cosmology) + origin of the universe (cosmogony) Cosmologists speculated about many topics that address psychology (1) thales. Insisted on scientific interpretations of the world over mystical ones. Possibly influenced by egyptian cosmology believed the earth resembled flat rimmed saucer floating in ocean. Water = primal substance plants + animals depend on it and it appears in a variety of forms. Aristotle suggested thales believed magnetic stone possessed a soul (2) anaximander. Rejected water as primary substance basic stuff of universe was infinite + formless . Life develops out of interaction of opposite moisture + fire, coolness + heat, etc. Viewed as the first evolutionary theorist believed humans came from fish-like apeiron (without boundary) creatures.
