| Sumario: | "The subject matter of this book is...the history of psychology in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. But although this description is convenient because of its brevity, it should immediately be qualified in three respects. First, because it contains an anachronism. The word 'psychology'...does not occur in any ancient Greek text....The second qualification is that this book only covers what the medieval commentaries called the science of the soul (scientia de anima). In other words, it only takes into account those views that were expressed in commentaries on Aristotle's De anima....The third, and most important qualification concerns the scope and the place of the science of the soul. In the Aristotelian tradition, at least up until the late fourteenth century, the scientia de anima was considered to be a part of natural philosophy; it was therefore subordinated to physics, as one of its special branches."--P. 2-3.
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