Epitomes of Three Sciences (Classic Reprint): Comparative Philology, Psychology, and Old Testament History - Couverture souple

Hermann Oldenberg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331981794 ISBN 13 : 9781331981794

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how three sciences shape our understanding of language, mind, and ancient history. This Open Court edition brings together concise, accessible essays that trace the foundations and progress of comparative philology, psychology, and Old Testament history. Readers will find clear ideas, historical context, and how new methods changed the way we study humanity.

From the roots of experimental psychology to the localization of brain function and the study of perception, this volume surveys essential questions and the methods that answered them. It links how we know what we know about language, thought, and religious history to the people and discoveries that built these fields.

• Foundational methods and milestones in psychology, including the rise of labs and key experiments.


• How brain science connects to mental processes, memory, and perception.


• Cross‑disciplinary viewpoints that illuminate language, culture, and biblical history.


• Profiles of influential thinkers and the practical aims behind scientific study.

Ideal for readers curious about how science and the humanities inform each other, and for those seeking a compact overview of these intertwined disciplines.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Epitomes ofT hree Sciences, gives an account of the recent work done in three different fields of modern knowledge ;viz., Comparative Philology, Experimental Psychology, andO ld Testament History. These three sciences have an almost direct bearing upon the religious views of our time, in spite of their difference of subject and the divergence of their authors standpoints. This preface is intended to explain in a few words the relation in which Comparative Philology, Experimental Psychology, and Biblical History stand to one another. Philology treats of language; and it is language that has created man and human society. It is speech that distinguishes the soul of man from the souls of brute creation. We shall never understand the mystery of mans dignity, his superiority and dominion over the rest of the animal world upon earth, until we have acquired an insight into the growth of the human soul as mirrored in the evolution of human speech. Language is not, as has been supposed in former times, a supernatural phenomenon ;it is of natural growth ;and nothing elucidates this truth more than Comparative Philology, which demonstrates that where at first sight the whims of fanciful invention or wilful caprice seemed to reign, in reality definite laws obtain, shaping the development of our speech in all its innumerable phases and changes. The same holds good of Psychology. The human mind is of natural growth, and the various caprices of the soul that at first It need scarcely be added that every one of the three authors is an authority in his specialty, and that none of these essays was written with any other purpose in view than that of summing up the present state of things in their three several departments.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Re

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jf KPREFATORY. This little book, Epitomes ofT hree Sciences gives an account of the recent work done in three different fields of modern knowledge ;viz., Comparative Philology, Experimental Psychology, andO ld Testament History. These three sciences have an almost direct bearing upon the religious views of our time, in spite of their difference of subject and the divergence of their authors standpoints. This preface is intended to explain in a few words the relation tj in which Comparative Philology, Experimental Psychology, and Biblical History stand to one another. Philology treats of language; and it is language that has created man and human society. It is speech that distinguishes the soul of man from the souls of brute creation. We shall never understand the mystery of mans dignity, his superiority and dominion over the rest of the animal world upon earth, until we have acquired an insight into the growth of the human soul as mirrored in the evolution of human speech. Language is not, as has been supposed in former times, a supernatural phenomenon ;it is of natural growth ;and nothing elucidates this truth more than Comparative Philology, which demonstrates that where at first sight the whims of fanciful invention or wilful caprice seemed to reign, in reality definite laws obtain, shaping the development of our speech in all its innumerable phases and changes. The same holds good of Psychology. The human mind is of natural growth, and the various caprices of the soul that at first It need scarcely be added that every one of the three authors is an authority in his specialty, and that none of these essays was written with any other purpose in view than that of summing up the present state of things in their three several departments.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331981794
• ISBN 13: 9781331981794
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 149
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