(Iii), Viii, Iv, 756, (Vii). One Volume Quarto Edition, With The Blake Frontispiece, Complete With Two Preliminary And Two Final Blanks. The Beginnings Of Western Scientific Philosophical Psychology, Here Enlarged From The 1749 German Original With Additional Notes And A Biographical Sketch And Portrait. Original Spotted Calf, Five Bands, Morocco Label, All Compartments Tooled With Gilt Designs And Rules. Edge Wear, Front Hinge Cracked Externally But Binding Sound, Original Endpapers, Not Re-Backed, No Names Or Marks Except A Few Pencil Notes On The Front Pastedown. Per Wikipedia, David Hartley Frs (1705 - 1757) Was An English Philosopher And Founder Of The Associationist School Of Psychology. Like John Locke, He Asserted That, Prior To Sensation, The Human Mind Is A Blank Slate. By A Growth From Simple Sensations, Those States Of Consciousness Which Appear Most Remote From Sensation Come Into Being. And The One Law Of Growth Of Which Hartley Took Account Was The Law Of Contiguity, Synchronous And Successive. By This Law He Sought To Explain, Not Only The Phenomena Of Memory, Which Others Had Similarly Explained Before Him, But Also The Phenomena Of Emotion, Of Reasoning, And Of Voluntary And Involuntary Action. His Attempts At Explicit Albeit Somewhat Obvious Analysis Of The Mechanics Of Mental Activity Laid An Important Framework Of Discussion For Subsequent Academic Psychology.

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Observations On Man, His Frame, His Duty, And His Expectations. In Two Parts. To Which Are Now Added, Notes And Additions To The Second Part . Also A Sketch Of The Life And Character And A Head Of The Author (Second Edition, Enlarged)

Publisher

J. Johnson, London

Publication Date

1791

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

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Frontispiece Portrait By William Blake

Edition

2nd Edition

Condition

Very Good +

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