Effort, Grace, and Spiritual Exercises with Simone Kotva
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The Origins of Psychology in the Eighteenth Century
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was a revival of spiritualist ideas. They were trying to say that you can explain even the psyche according to these laws. This view tended to downplay the idea that there was something like spirit or will which doesn't really have a mechanistic explanation. The personi i write about in the book, who is really important here, is called er. He had a very long name, fo let's call him just men de biron, which is his, his taken surname, and that's how we tend to refer to him as men de b iron, or biron. So he argued that there were complimentary models for understanding how a human
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