PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Great Chain Of Being, Christian Mortalism, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

Psyche meaning the soul and logos the study of. Separation of mind and body plato, the mind continues after death, ideas are innate. Naturalist and placed humans at top of scala naturae (natural scale of intelligence) Soul is not separate from the body and knowledge grows from experience. Both body and mind exist and interact to produce the conscious experience. We are dream/ drama we are part of god. We are nature which is the way it is yin and yang, duality in nature (taoist philosophy) Confucius (chinese philosopher) believed that people must be understood as best as possible, treated accordingly, and if suitable, given the right positions in government for society to benefit. Buddha traced the root of human suffering to constant wanting and craving. Early greeks and other ancients humans and gods were quite separate from other living things. The mind is tabula rasa blank slate. Humans are now back in the animal kingdom, built in instincts.