Observations On The Progress to Happiness Introduction [Manuscript on paper]; Twelve Observations

Hartley, David

Published by Np March 7th 173/5, Np

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103 pages. 22 x 17 cm. The very last page of the manuscript with some loss at head. This manuscript in his own hand Hartley sought to explain how the most complex mental processes imagining, remembering, reasoning might be analyzed into clusters or sequences of elementary sense impressions and that ultimately all psychological acts might be explained by a single law of association. His major work was "Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations." (2 vol., 1749). From John Locke s Essay Concerning Human Understanding he adopted the concept of the association of ideas that ideas are interconnected, sequential, and descriptive of experience. Attempting to explain how thought processes occur, Hartley s associations, with later modifications, has endured as an integral part of modern psychological theory. He advocated that physiological psychology be separate from metaphysics. Back cover has losses mostly toward the spine. Interior contents clean, legible and bright. Covers darkened. Orig. full vellum worn,with string ties. Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Observations On The Progress to Happiness Introduction [Manuscript on paper]; Twelve Observations
• Publisher: Np March 7th 173/5, Np
• Binding: leather_bound
• Edition: 1st Edition