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Instinct in Man; A Contribution to the Psychology of Education
Instinct in Man A Contribution to the Psychology of Education Author:James Drever General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: University Press Subjects: Instinct Intellect Psychology Educational psychology Education / Educational Psychology Psychology / General Psychology / Cognitive Psychology Self-Help / General Self-Help / Personal Growth / General No... more »tes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC VIEWS OF THE NATURE AND MEANING OF INSTINCT We have considered the view of Instinct which a descriptive and purely introspective psychology had reached by the beginning of the nineteenth century. The views of Instinct which have prevailed in more recent times have been either philosophical, physiological, or biological, rather than psychological, though they have often professed to be psychological, and it remains for us to give some account of the development of these. Recent philosophical views of Instinct have been the product in the main of German thought, more especially of German philosophical thought subsequent to Kant, but this philosophical development really has its source in Leibniz and Wolff, rather than in Kant himself. With respect to psychology, the main characteristic of the whole movement has been the deducing of a psychology from certain metaphysical principles, the psychological product of this method of procedure being best represented in the psychology of Herbart. We may say that one main difference between Scottish philosophy and German philosophy, and consequently between Scottish and German psychology -- except experimental and recent -- is that, in the former case, a system of metaphysics is deduced from the results of a psychological analysis, while, in the latter, a psychologica...« less