Early Psychological Thought: Ancient Accounts of Mind and Soul (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313318450)

The modern view of the mind is the result of thousands of years of thought, discussion, and experimentation. This volume examines how the foundations of this concept were laid in the ancient world, focusing on the role of Ipsyche R in the thought of the most influential philosophers, poets, and physicians from archaic Greece to the fall of Rome. The authors show how the various processes we now group together under the general rubric psychology--such as thought, emotion, desire, and will--began as relatively disparate parts of the Greek conceptual scheme, only converging gradually over the course of centuries into what we now call mind. By reconstructing what the ancient Greeks and Romans understood by terms such as Ipsyche R, Iphrenes R, and Inous R, this survey of the early development of psychological thought highlights the legacies of their accounts, which can still be found embedded in modern psychological assumptions.

Author: Christopher D. Green
ISBN-10: 031331845X
ISBN-13: 9780313318450
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 07/30/2003
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.28w x 0.79d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2004 pg. 1334