1st Edition

Revival: Mind and Body: A Criticism of Psychophysical Parallelism (1927)

By Hans Driesch Copyright 1927
184 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

161 Pages
by Routledge

This little book is not a text-book of psychology. It is exclusively concerned with one particular psychological problem, a problem, however, that stands at the very centre of psychology. The relations between mind and body are analysed; that is to say, the following three psychedelic problems are successively raised: What is the mind? What is the body? What are the relations between mind and... Read more

Part 1: Critique of Psychophysical Parallelism  1. The Problem  2. General Arguments For and Against the Parallelistic Theory  3. The Origin of the Mental  4. Action as a Non-Mechanical Natural Phenomenon  5. The Theory of the Structure of the Mental  6. The General Meaning of ‘Canon of the Correspondence of the Degrees of Manifoldness’ An Intercalary Investigation  Part 2: The Body, the Mind, and their Relation 1. The Body  2. Derivation of the Concept ‘My Mind’

Biography

Hans Driesch