EDITORIAL.
PSYCHOLOGwYh ich till recently was known among us chiefly as Mental
Philosophy and was mainly concerned with problems of a more or less speculative
and transcendental character, has now at length attained the position of
a positive science ; one of special interest to the philosopher, no doubt, but
still independent of his control, possessing its own methods, its own specific
problems and a distinct standpoint altogether its own. ‘Ideas’ in the
philosophical sense do not fall within its scope: its inquiries are restricted
entirely to ‘facts.’ In pursuit of these it is brought into close relations
with biology, physiology, pathology and again with philology, anthropology
and even literature. Its results also have important practical applications
for the educationist, the jurist, the economist, quite apart from their
theoretical bearing on the problems of the epistemologist and the moralist.
In becoming a distinct science it has thus increased the intimacy and variety
EDITORIAL.PSYCHOLOGwYh ich till recently was known among us chiefly as MentalPhilosophy and was mainly concerned with problems of a more or less speculativeand transcendental character, has now at length attained the position ofa positive science ; one of special interest to the philosopher, no doubt, butstill independent of his control, possessing its own methods, its own specificproblems and a distinct standpoint altogether its own. ‘Ideas’ in thephilosophical sense do not fall within its scope: its inquiries are restrictedentirely to ‘facts.’ In pursuit of these it is brought into close relationswith biology, physiology, pathology and again with philology, anthropologyand even literature. Its results also have important practical applicationsfor the educationist, the jurist, the economist, quite apart from theirtheoretical bearing on the problems of the epistemologist and the moralist.In becoming a distinct science it has thus increased the intimacy and variety
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