Phrenology, Or the Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena
Phrenology, Or the Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena

Author: Johann Gaspar Spurzheim

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Published: 2020-04-29

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780461855555

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Phrenology, Or, The Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena
Phrenology, Or, The Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena

Author: Johann Gaspar Spurzheim

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Published: 1855

Total Pages: 371

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"The first publication presented to the English public under the title The Physiognomical System, contained several summary views of different branches of anthropology, which can be appreciated only after having been examined with great attention in all their details. Several chapters required more development, but the volume was already too large. I, therefore, after the second edition was sold, deemed it advisable to publish several chapters as separate works, and to give another arrangement to my English publications. In one volume, I gave an abstract of the anatomy of the brain, --in another, I treated of the deranged manifestations of the mind;--in a third, of the elementary principles of education, and I now publish two volumes on phrenology. In the first, I examine the physiological, and in the second the philosophical part of phrenology. Both these kinds of inquiries are inseparable from each other in the study of mental phenomena. We must first possess positive observations before we are allowed to reason but being acquainted with a sufficient number of facts, we may draw from them philosophical conclusions"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

Phrenology, Or, The Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena
Phrenology, Or, The Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena

Author: Johann Gaspar Spurzheim

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Published: 1855

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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"The ancient philosophers were, in general, metaphysicians, that is, they examined objects without the reach of observation; for instance, the primitive cause of the universe, the origin of beings, the cause of life, the nature of the soul, its immortality, &c. I incessantly repeat, that the aim of Phrenology is never to attempt pointing out what the mind is in itself, or its manner of acting, or its final destination. Phrenologists are observers of nature, and as such they examine only the manifestations of the mind and the circumstances under which these take place in this life. To prove Phrenology, a great mass of incontestable facts has been collected. This volume contains philosophical reflections, and inferences drawn from phrenological observations. It will be divided into eight sections. In the first I shall make remarks on various systems of mental philosophy: in the second I shall enumerate the fundamental powers of the mind which are ascertained by observation and admitted in Phrenology; state their aim, the disorders which may result from them, and the consequences of their inactivity: in the third, I shall discuss their origin: in the fourth, the conditions of their manifestations: in the fifth, the religious constitution of man: in the sixth, the moral constitution of man: in the seventh, I shall make some practical reflections; and, in the eighth, explain several philosophical expressions according to the fundamental powers of the mind"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).