THE CATHOLIC TRADITION AT THE BEGINNINGS OF HUNGARIAN PSYCHOLOGY: HARKAI, DIENES, SCHÜTZ
THE CATHOLIC TRADITION AT THE BEGINNINGS OF HUNGARIAN PSYCHOLOGY: HARKAI, DIENES, SCHÜTZ

Summary/Abstract: The paper surveys the different attitudes and oeuvres in early twentieth-century Catholic psychology in Hungary. Some authors like Gyula Kornis tried to introduce experimental psychology into the Catholic intellectual panorama, while avoiding any open conflicts between faith and science. Others like Antal Schutz tried to combine their interest towards psychology with a clear anti-positivist credo and went back to Tomistic notions regarding the integrity of personality. Still others like Paul von Schiller became leading experimental scientists in whose work the Catholic element is revealed by his interest in animal intentionality. On the whole, Catholic psychology in the Hungarian context has many faces but also some underlying common features such as anti-elementarism and an interest in the active aspects of mental life.

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