PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Scholasticism, Headless Men, Optical Instrument
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For the paper, don"t choose something with a moral standpoint, choose the one i something that has a social context: best idea is to email cupchik on the paper topic. After aristotle, naturalistic psychology gradually disappeared from the scene. The centre of learning shifted from athens to alexandria but psychology was not pursued: things moving from greece to northern africa in egypt. It gave way to a kind of practical and ethical anthropology and later to a form of spiritistic theology. There were cultural and social reasons for this. In alexandria: doctrine of inwardness & subjectivity prevailed over objective appreciation of psychological activities. The intellectual systematization of the 4th century bc reflected the unified periclean. The cultural conditions which supported plato and aristotle gave way to a new human condition - hellenism. With one war after another, conditions discouraged an independent and unbiased search for scientific meaning, and turned thinkers toward mythology and superstition.
