RE207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Radical Empiricism, Scientific Misconduct, Neurosis
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Bad life so devoted self to religion. First medieval spiritual author to monks and laity. Practical application of belief in the great mysteries. Contemplation: christ in whom god and humanity are joined. Love and knowledge growth of contemplation. Us large-scale contribution to the development of re-thinking european thought. Very little they could do to make a distinctively american contribution to the comparative study of religion. Men we"re going to study believed that as psychologists they were studying the rational human psyche that non-material part of the individual (soul, mind, feeling, consciousness, transcendental ego) through which the individual as such operates. 19th century psychology seems to made up of a process of random observation and conjecture. William wundt: bible of experimental psychologists. William wundt: bible of experimental psychologists, effect of reducing the random quality of psychological observation, establishing pragmatic, and repeatable, tests by which psychological qualities and characteristics could be measured.