The Human Person What Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas Offer Modern Psyc
This book introduces the Aristotelian-Thomistic view of the human person to a contemporary audience, and reviews the ways in which this view could provide a philosophically sound foundation for modern psychology. The book presents the current state of psy
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Person What Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas Offer Modern Psychology
The Human Person
Thomas L. Spalding • James M. Stedman Christina L. Gagné • Matthew Kostelecky
The Human Person What Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas Offer Modern Psychology
Thomas L. Spalding Department of Psychology University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada
James M. Stedman The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio, TX, USA
Christina L. Gagné Department of Psychology University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada
Matthew Kostelecky St. Joseph’s College at the University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Preface
This book is something of an oddity—it is the outcome of a collaboration among two cognitive psychologists, a clinical psychologist, and a philosopher (an unusual grouping by pretty much anyone’s standards) trying to come to a common understanding of how psychology as a discipline can be unified such that the discipline provides a full picture of the human. Each of us, on their own and for their own reasons, had become interested in the philosophical tradition associated with Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas (and others), not just as an historical school to be studied, but as a living philosophical approach that could be applied to particular questions and issues in psychology. As we each, and in various combinations, worked on such particular questions, it seemed (to each of us) that the Aristotelian- Thomistic (A-T) tradition offered much that we felt was missing in modern psychology more generally. Writi
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