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Record Nr.

UNINA9910364945603321

Autore

Spalding Thomas L

Titolo

The Human Person [[electronic resource] ] : What Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas Offer Modern Psychology / / by Thomas L. Spalding, James M. Stedman, Christina L. Gagné, Matthew Kostelecky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-33912-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages)

Disciplina

150.1

Soggetti

Cognitive psychology

Philosophy of mind

Personality

Social psychology

Psychology

Ontology

Cognitive Psychology

Philosophy of Mind

Personality and Social Psychology

History of Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Metaphysical Foundations of the Human Person -- Chapter 3: Human and Non-Human Cognition -- Chapter 4: Embodied and Humanistic Views of Cognition -- Chapter 5: Emotion and Cognition -- Chapter 6: Human Flourishing -- Chapter 7: The Human in Society -- Chapter 8: Summary and Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces the Aristotelian-Thomistic view of the human person to a contemporary audience, and reviews the ways in which this view could provide a philosophically sound foundation for modern psychology. The book presents the current state of psychology and offers critiques of the current philosophical foundations. In its presentation of the fundamental metaphysical commitments of the Aristotelian-Thomistic view, it places the human being within the



broader understanding of the world. Chapters discuss the Aristotelian-Thomistic view of human and non-human cognition as well as the relationship between cognition and emotion. In addition, the book discusses the Aristotelian-Thomistic conception of human growth and development, including how the virtue theory relates to current psychological approaches to normal human development, the development of character problems that lead to psychopathology, current conceptions of positive psychology, and the place of the individual in the social world. The book ends with a summary of how Aristotelian-Thomistic theory relates to science in general and psychology in particular. The Human Person will be of interest to psychologists and cognitive scientists working within a number of subfields, including developmental psychology, social psychology, cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology, and to philosophers working on the philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, and the interaction between historical philosophy and contemporary science, as well as linguists and computer scientists interested in psychology of language and artificial intelligence. .