An introduction to psychology / by F. Aveling.

  • Francis Aveling
Date:
1932
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    was opposed (Stoics), in an interesting antici¬ pation of a view of consciousness as consisting in passively received sensations, from which all knowledge, feeling and will are derived. These sensations become representations when they rise with increasing clearness in consciousness. These two points mark a phase of development in the concept of the mental as contrasted with the physical, and also foreshadow the modern doctrine of the subjective variation of clearness in ideas. The last stage of Greek speculation has even less interest for psychology. Attempts were made to unite Jewish religious beliefs with the philo¬ sophy of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. The number theory and the theory of Ideas were revived ; but philosophy tended to degenerate into mysticism. The chief significance of these movements, so far as psychology is concerned, is that, infiltrating into Christian tradition, they influenced the thought of so great a psycho¬ logist as St. Augustine (b. a.d. 354).
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