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Experiment, Experience and Observation in Eighteenth‐Century Anthropology and Psychology – the Examples of Krüger's Experimentalseelenlehre and Moritz' Erfahrungsseelenkunde
Author(s) -
Zelle Carsten
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
orbis litterarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1600-0730
pISSN - 0105-7510
DOI - 10.1034/j.1600-0730.2001.d01-36.x
Subject(s) - experiential learning , empirical psychology , enlightenment , terminology , anthropology , psychoanalysis , theoretical psychology , epistemology , philosophy , psychology , sociology , linguistics , mathematics education
This article situates the role of Johann Gottlieb Krüger (1715–1759), one representative of Halle's “reasonable doctors”, as a link between Christian Wolff's empirical psychology and the anthropology of the late Enlightenment. Krüger's “Experimental Psychology” (1756) is analyzed, particularly the distinction drawn in his work between ‘observation’ and ‘experiment’ as experiential modi. Comparison between these modi and Karl Philipp Moritz' terminology of self‐observation and observation of the other shows that experimental and empirical psychology are closer than previous research has assumed.