PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Great Chain Of Being, Department For Education And Child Development, Tao Te Ching
Document Summary
People have been asking psychological questions for thousands of years the questions they have asked are quite sophisticated. Western psychology has its roots among the ancient greek, whose speculations about the nature of mathematics and its apparent ability to represent reality have been important in the history of. The greeks also estimated about such enduring issues as the relation between mind & body, and between experience & reality and the nature of memory. Psychology is not purely a western invention, for example, the psychological descriptions by the. Chinese sage lao-tzu were extremely acute and are still relevant to us today. Important ideas in psychology or any other discipline do not come out of nowhere. The present generation of psychologists draws on a rich store of ideas from previous generations. Throughout history, the contributions of each generation would have been impossible without the foundation laid by its predecessors.
