Passions in William Ockham's Philosophical Psychology

1. 1. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS At the end ofthe 19th century, when the discipline called psychology 1 is said to have become "independent" , attention began to be focused towards nominalistic philosophy from a point of view that can be called psychological. At that time, Vienna, the capital of the Austro Hungarian Dual Monarchy, was a center for several disciplines. It is no wonder that it was there that the research conceming the psychological themes of William Ockham and other nominalists began. Karl Wemer (1821-1888), a Catholic, neo-scholastic scholar, professor of New Testament studies at the Univers?ty of Vienna (1870), and a member ofthe Imperial Academy of Sciences (1874), seems to have planned a history of medieval psychology. However, only fragments of it were printed, among them the following articles: 'Der A verroismus in der christlich-peripatetischen Psychologie des sp?teren Mittelalters' (1881), 'Die nominalisirende Psychologie der Scholastik des sp?teren Mittelalters' (1881) and 'Die augustinische Psychologie in ihrer mittelalterlich-scholastischen Einkleidung und Gestaltung' (1882). 2 Wemer deals especially with Ockham's 1 See Kusch 1995 and 1999. 2 Pluta 1987, 12-13. See Wemer 1881a, 1881b, 1882. (Those three texts were republished in 1964 under the name Psychologie des Mittelalters. ) Prior to those books, Wemer had written about William of Auvergne's, Bonaventure's, John Duns Scotus's and Roger 1 2 CHAPTERONE psychology, among other things, in the second of these articles.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 1.1. Introductory Remarks.- 1.2. Terms and Things.- 2. The Passionate Human Being.- 2.1. The Human Being.- 2.2. Passions of the Souls.- 3. Sensory Passions.- 3.1. Genesis of the Sensory Passions.- 3.2. What Are Sensory Passions?.- 4. Passions of the Will.- 4.1. Genesis of the Passions of the Will.- 4.2. What Are Passions of the Will?.- Conclusion.- Name Index.

Product details

• Authors: Vesa Hirvonen
• Assisted by: Vesa Hirvonen (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2010
• EAN: 9789048165926
• ISBN: 978-90-481-6592-6
• No. of pages: 213
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 240 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 395 g
• Illustrations: IX, 213 p. 2 illus.
• Series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind; Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Religion, B, Philosophie des Geistes, Religion, allgemein, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Religion: general, History of Philosophy, auseinandersetzen, Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen, Religion and Philosophy, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Religious Studies, general, Philosophy of the Self, Philosophy of Man, Medieval Philosophy