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Showing posts with label Aristotle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aristotle. Show all posts

Saturday, October 22, 2011

What is Psychology?

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Psychology can be described as the science which deals with the behavior of individual. Psychology also analyzes the mental processes of individual. Demonstration of psychology is important because some people mix sociology with psychology. Psychology deals with nature of individual whereas other term deals with the nature of society. Psychology renders benefits to the society by making several researches on particular cases. These cases are done for the purpose of understanding individuals and groups. Those who are professional in this field are generally called psychologists, could also be named as cognitive scientists, social scientists. Let’s say some few words about the history of psychology. Psychology originated from Greece, Egypt, and Persia. Basically those countries ancient civilization contributed a lot in the study of psychology. Plato, Aristotle are the first dominant legends in the study of psychology. As a main difference between sociology and psychology is that psychology deals with human nature, how they are working, cause and effect, on the other hand sociology deals with the whole society. Key similarity is that both of those are science of attitude, behavior.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Aristotle: A Hero

Aristotle
We all somehow have heard about this great man Aristotle who was a well known and great philosopher and of course a polymath. Aristotle was a teacher of Alexander the Great and he himself was a student of Plato. He had contributed in many fields like biology, physics, politics, theatre, and of course in sociology. Aristotle did writings about the perfect dealing of the Society, law, and the state in the books Ethics and Politics. This great philopher was born in stagira (city), which is situated in the norteastern part of greece.

Contributors in Sociology

There are many contributors in Sociology who have sufficient impact on the origin of sociology. Plato, Aristotle, Karl Marx, August Comte, Machiavelli, Cicero and Max Weber are the most popular names in the history who contributed a lot in this particular field. Aristotle mentioned about the perfect dealing of the Society, law, and the state in the books Politics and Ethics. However, Plato also contributed in this particular discipline of social science by writing about City Society and its problems in his book Republic. From the early history, many greeks, romans have contributed a lot for the betterment of this specific field. we will be discussing more about them later on.