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Critica psihologiei raționale și paralogismul psihologic
The Critique of Rational Psychology and the Psychological Paralogism

Author(s): Rodica Croitoru
Subject(s): Psychology, Special Branches of Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: rational psychology; categories; thinking I; order of purposes; psychological paralogism; Moses Mendelssohn;

Summary/Abstract: In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant contributes to the critique of rational psychology by highlighting the intensive size of the soul and arguing that it is responsible for the degree of reality of the faculties of the soul and for existence in general. This degree may progressively decrease to nothing. This way, a substance can be transformed into nothing, not by decomposition, but through a gradual loss of force. This observation proved to be consonant with further clinical and empirical observations about the human being and about its vital capacities. At the same time, it contributed to the decline of psychology as a general science of the human soul, particularly by changing the focus on different aspects of the I/soul/psyche in relationship with human life.

  • Issue Year: XXXII/2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 143-152
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian
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