Passions in William Ockham's Philosophical Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781402021183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 213 str.

VESA Hirvonen

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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.

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Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. 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. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.