https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Wundt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lkerpsychologie
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8309.1983.tb00597.x/full
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYENElOd2E3UlIyRms/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYEQWpiOWU0MjFfQlE/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYEU0d3V3BFckFxT0U/view?usp=sharing
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8309.1983.tb00597.x/full
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYENElOd2E3UlIyRms/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYEQWpiOWU0MjFfQlE/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYEU0d3V3BFckFxT0U/view?usp=sharing
Elements of Folk Psychology - Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind, by Wilhelm Wundt, Blakiston Press, 2008 (1912) (accessible via scribd)
Wilhelm Wundt in History: The Making of a Scientific Psychology, ed. by Robert W. Rieber, David K. Robinson, Springer, 2001
Wundt and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology: A Reappraisal, by Saulo de Freitas Araujo, Springer, 2015 (accessible via fju) (see 5.2)
The psychological
laws of development, obtained by VP through investigation of
concrete facts of the human mind, concern only the psychic dimension of
reality (EVP, p. 11). However, for the philosophical analysis of the
historical process of humanity, those laws acquire a metaphysical
dimension that goes beyond any possibility of empirical apprehension. For
this reason, by affirming that history is the history of the spirit (
Geistesgeschichte ) (EVP, p. 515), Wundt introduced here a metaphysical dimension.
Thus, there is no
psychologization of history, because the philosophy of history belongs to
Wundt’s highest metaphysical interests, in which the spirit ( der Geist )
replaces the mind ( die Seele ).
To summarize, one can say
that VP plays a double role in Wundt’s project. On the one hand, it is a
necessary complement to experimental or individual psychology in the
search for the universal laws of mental life. On the other hand, it serves as
one of the foundations for the philosophy of history, which, by unifying the
philosophy of nature and the philosophy of spirit, will lead to a final
Weltanschauung .(Saulo de Freitas Araujo, 2015, p. 190)
The psychological
laws of development, obtained by VP through investigation of
concrete facts of the human mind, concern only the psychic dimension of
reality (EVP, p. 11). However, for the philosophical analysis of the
historical process of humanity, those laws acquire a metaphysical
dimension that goes beyond any possibility of empirical apprehension. For
this reason, by affirming that history is the history of the spirit (
Geistesgeschichte ) (EVP, p. 515), Wundt introduced here a metaphysical dimension.
Thus, there is no
psychologization of history, because the philosophy of history belongs to
Wundt’s highest metaphysical interests, in which the spirit ( der Geist )
replaces the mind ( die Seele ).
To summarize, one can say
that VP plays a double role in Wundt’s project. On the one hand, it is a
necessary complement to experimental or individual psychology in the
search for the universal laws of mental life. On the other hand, it serves as
one of the foundations for the philosophy of history, which, by unifying the
philosophy of nature and the philosophy of spirit, will lead to a final
Weltanschauung .(Saulo de Freitas Araujo, 2015, p. 190)
