[lit-ideas] Re: Kallokagathos, Psukhe kai Ethos

 
<NOBR>My edition of the OED quotes. Note that 80% of them consider  
psychology as a branch of philo
<NOBR>(strictly, 'metaphysica specialis') and thus a step any  serious 
philosophical student of 'mo
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<NOB N. CULPEPER tr.  S. Partlitz New Method of Physick 168 
        "Psychologie is the knowledg of the Soul [L. Scientia de  anima 
psukhologia dicitur]." 
1673 tr. J. de Back Disc. in W. Harvey Anat.  Exercitations H7v, 
I call the generall doctrine of man  Anthropologie, the parts of which, I do 
ordain to be, according to this  division, Psychologie, Somatologie, and 
matologie, into the doctrine of the  soul, bodie, and blood... Psychologie is a 
doctrine which searches out  mans Soul, and the effects of it. 
1693 tr. S. Blankaart  Physical Dict.13  Anthropologia, the Description of a 
Man, or the Doctrin  concerning him. Bartholine divides it into Two Parts; 
viz.  Anatomy, which treats of the Body, and Psycology, which treats of  the 
Soul. 
1716 tr. P.  Dionis Anat. Humane Bodies 91  This Science contains two Parts: 
the first treats of the Soul,  and is called Psycology, of which I shall say 
nothing. 
1776 G. CAMPBELL Philos. Rhetoric 142 Under the  general term [sc. 
physiology] I also comprehend natural theology and  psychology, which..have 
been most 
unnaturally disjoined by philosophers.  Spirit..is surely as much included 
under 
the notion of natural object, as body  is. 
1799 J. EBERS New Dict. German & Eng. 220/2 Seelenlehre, Psychology, a 
treatise upon the Soul, the  Science of the Faculties of human Souls. 
1815 J.  H. JUNG-STILLING  tr. G. Shober Scenes in World of Spirits   72, I 
have..represented that point between the exit of  self-knowledge in this life, 
and the awaking in the World of Spirits as a dream:  I conjecture..that the 
situation is such, although I cannot give reason for it;  in the meantime 
Psychologie opposeth nothing to it. 
1839 R.  DAWES Nix's Mate 264 There was a time  when a true psychology 
existed,or rather, when a perception of the  soul's nature was permitted to 
man. 
1950 E.  FROMM Psychoanal. & Relig. i. 7  Slowly he [sc. Freud] became aware 
that he had..resumed a  tradition in which psychology as the study of the soul 
of man was the  theoretical basis for the art of living. 
1997 Isis  88 703/2 There was, of course, no field of psychology in  the 
Middle Therunless one takes ‘psychology’  literally, as the study of the soul.
1712 H.  CURZON Universal Libr. I. 27  Pneumatica is divided according to the 
diversity of the  Objects; it contemplates into Natural Theology; 
Geniography, or the Science of  Angels, and Psychology, or the Doctrine of the 
Soul... 
Psychology examines the  constitution of the Mind of Man, its Faculties and 
Passions.] 1749 D. HARTLEY Observ. Man 354 Psychology, or the Theory of the  
human 
Mind, with that of the intellectual Principles of Brute Animals. 
1800 Med. Jrnl. 4 187 A  circumstance very interesting with respect to 
Psichology. 
1842 J. C. PRICHARD Nat. Hist. Man 486 Psychology  is, with respect to 
mankind, the history of the mental faculties. 
1879 T. H. HUXLEY Hume i, Psychology is a part of the  science of life or 
biology... As the physiologist inquires into the way in which  the so-called ‘
functions’ of the body are performed, so the psychologist studies  the 
so-called ‘
faculties’ of the mind. 
1892 W. JAMES Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) xx. 317, I wished, by treating 
Psychology like a natural science,  to help her to become one. 
1913 Psychol. Rev. 20 158 Psychology as the behaviorist  views it is a purely 
objective experimental branch of natural science. Its  theoretical goal is 
the prediction and control of behavior. 
1940 E. R. HILGARD & D. G. MARQUIS  Conditioning & Learning i. 2 The 
conditioned response was called the unit of habit by  psychologists to whom 
habit was 
the most important concept in psychology. 
1976 H.  BROWN Brain & Behavior i. 5 The  study of the relation between brain 
structure and behavior gives physiological  psychology the unique mission of 
trying to resolve an old and basic puzzle of  philosophy and science, often 
referred to as the ‘mind-body problem’. 
2004 Wall St. Jrnl. (Central ed.) 7 June C1/5 The serious  study of games in 
which researchers use economics, mathematics and psychology to  assess the way 
people make decisions.
1834 S. T. COLERIDGE Lit. Remains (1836) I. 133 We  have the odd or the 
grotesque; the occasional use of which in the minor  ornaments of architecture, 
is 
an interesting problem for a student in the  psychology of the Fine Arts. 
1844 in F. Brown Star of  Attéghéi Pref. p. xii, The above is an  interesting 
remark,pointing out a distinction, the  psychology of which does not..seem 
far to seek. 
1866  Nation 25 Jan. 1100 Although he  [sc. Charles Kingsley] has troubled 
himself throughout very little with  the psychology of his story,..he has 
yet..given us a very pretty insight into  poor Hereward's feelings. 
1929 B. RUSSELL Marriage & Morals xvi. 182 
"The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals." 
1975 W.  S. SAHAKIAN Hist. & Syst. Psychol. xix. 425 The World War II years 
found him interested in the psychology of  morale and human engineering 
psychology. 
2001 Pride  Sept. 4 We look at the sexology of scent and examine the  
psychology of bedroom behaviour.
1849 Littell's Living Age July 19/2 A portion of our provincial readers  must 
pardon the suspicion that they imperfectly understand the philosophy of  
sport, the physiology of the dog, and his psychology, so to speak. 
1886 Mind  11 144 His psychology inevitably precludes him [sc.  Plato] from 
being really Libertarian. 
1908 F. M. FORD Let. Dec. (1965) 29 Thanks for  yr. letter: of course I 
understand yr. psychology &, God forbid that you  shd. restrain yr. irritation 
before men of good will. 

1928 Daily Tel. 11 Sept. 10/5 The psychology of the workaday  world has 
infected him with its disquiet. 
1965 L. TRILLING Beyond Culture (1967) 104 If you  enslave a man, he will 
develop the psychology of a slave. 
1992 Mind 101 200  Incompatibilists might insist..that the actions that we ou
ght to  do are not deductively ruled out by our psychologies.
1895 Science 19 Apr. 430 It is a  common saying that if you attend to a 
toothache, for instance, ‘you make it  worse’. That is bad psychology. You 
attend, 
in reality, to the tooth. That means  you perceive the truth more clearly 
than anything else for the time being.
1900 Nebraska State Jrnl. 26 Aug. 17/2 Some will have it that the tall 
girl..appears to abound only  because we expect her. This is good psychology. 
Wait 
for your friend at the  station, and presently every corner resembles your 
friend. 
1938  Amer. Home Jan. 24/1 It is sound  psychology to remember that the dream 
of young people is to grow old, and it is  likewise the dream of their 
parents to re-live youth. 
1966 S. DELANY  Babel-17 I. ii. 27 Managing a spaceship crew takes a special 
sort of psychology. 
1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. VIII. 62/5 I've  always considered it good 
psychology, when attempting to rip off an impoverished  stallholder, to wander 
off and 
let them stew.
1772 C. CRAWFORD (title) A dissertation on the Phædon of Plato..to which is 
annexed, a  psychology: or, an abstract investigation of the nature of the 
soul. 
1823 H. T. COLEBROOKE Philos. Hindus in Trans. Royal  Asiatic Soc. (1824) 1 
19 The latter  (Uttara) commonly called Védánta..deduces from the text of the 
Indian  scriptures, a refined psychology, which goes to a denial of a material 
world. 
1866 J. F. FERRIER Lect. Greek Philos. 231 The  doctrine taught in all our 
logics and psychologies. 
1884 J. TAIT Mind in Matter 110 The  Philosophy of Spinoza results in the 
Psychology of Hume. 
1924 A. S. PRINGLE-PATTISON  Locke's Human Understanding p. xx, This start 
with sensations, atomistically conceived as simple or  particular ideas..is a 
presupposition of the older psychology, common to Locke,  Berkeley, and Hume. 
1986 C. A. KELBLEY tr. P. Ricoeur  Fallible Man iv. 111 The  elementary 
passions were thus situated so as to favor the purificative and  liberating 
enterprise of an Aristotelian psychology of pleasure. 
1890  W. JAMES Princ. Psychol. 56, I have  myself for many years collected 
from each and all of my psychology-students  descriptions of their own visual 
imagination. 
1895 W. JAMES Coll. Ess. & Rev. 399 No  conventional restrictions can keep 
metaphysical and so-called  epistemological inquiries out of the psychology 
books. 
1921 Nebraska  State Jrnl. 16 Oct. 22/2 The members of the  psychology 
journal club were called together last week... The club consists of  thoise who 
are 
taking majors or minors in psychology. 
1972 G. W. KISKER  Disorganized Personality (494  Psychology students were 
employed by one investigator as  ‘companion counselors’. 
1997 E. WHITE Farewell Symphony 154, I signed  up to ghostwrite a 
thousand-page psychology textbook for college freshmen. 
 

JL
 




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