PLATONIC PSYCHOLOGY AND ARISTOTELIAN PSYCHOLOGY VS COGNITIVISM
PLATONIC PSYCHOLOGY AND ARISTOTELIAN PSYCHOLOGY VS COGNITIVISM

Summary/Abstract: The famous Socratic phrase "Know thyself" initiates the movement of the human’s reflection on the self and causes the opening towards" the thought which thinks himself" and towards searching and explaining the mechanisms through which the thought functions. Mental functions are structured, hierarchical and located inside the body for Plato. For Aristotle, mental functions are achieved by "moving" the pneuma within the anatomical system. The cognitivism is Platonic since it builds schemes and moves within them. In modern terms, he is concerned with the software.

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