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Informationen zum Autor Preben Bertelsen is Associate Professor and Head of Study in the Department of Psychology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. His areas of interest include Social Psychology, Psychology of the personality and Anthropological Psychology. Klappentext What is it to be human? How do we relate to the world, to each other and to our self in a human - in everyday life and when faced with life's big questions? In this book, the author develops a general theoretical model that might be able to offer a better understanding of the human condition and of the underlying principles of human behavior. The author shows that general psychology, bridging the natural sciences and the social sciences, can make a significant contribution to a general anthropology. Zusammenfassung What is it to be human? How do we relate to the world, to each other and to our self in a human - in everyday life and when faced with life's big questions? Here, the author develops a general theoretical model intended to offer a better understanding of the human condition and of the underlying principles of human behaviour. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Preface Introduction: General anthropology Chapter 1. What is general psychology? Chapter 2. What is anthropological psychology? Chapter 3. The distinguishing traits of human beings seen from the perspective of natural and cultural history Chapter 4. Levels of connectedness of the psyche Chapter 5. The free will Chapter 6. Consciousness Chapter 7. The self and the life project Chapter 8. An anthropological-psychological taxonomy Bibliography Subject index
