Sinha - Indian Psychology Perception

The International Library of Psychology

INDIAN PSYCHOLOGY

Founded by C. K. Ogden

The International Library of Psychology

PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION

In 6 Volumes

INDIAN PSYCHOLOGY

Perception

JADUNATH SINHA

First published in 1934
by Routledge, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd

Reprinted in 1999, 2000, 2001
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1934 Jadunath Sinha

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Indian Psychology
ISBN 0415-21113-1
Psychology and Religion: 6 Volumes
ISBN 0415-21133-6
The International Library of Psychology: 204 Volumes
ISBN 0415-19132-7

ABBREVIATIONS

THE crowning achievement of the Hindus was metaphysical speculation. But the philosophical literature of India is not only rich in Metaphysics but also in Psychology, Logic, Ethics, sthetics, and Epistemology. There is no system of Indian philosophy which has not advanced a theory of knowledge, and which has not appealed to the facts of our experience. Every school of philosophy has made valuable contributions to Psychology, Logic, Ethics, and other mental sciences. But these have never been treated as separate branches of study in India.

The Hindu mind is essentially synthetic. It always analyses a problem into its various aspects, and considers them in their synthetic relation to one another. It never destroys the organic unity of a subject and makes a compartmental study of its different aspects. In the philosophical literature of India we find a synthetic treatment of a problem in all its multifarious aspects, psychological, logical, ethical, and metaphysical. In the later stages of the development of Indian thought, though we come across separate treatises and monographs on Logic and Epistemology, we find them mixed up with Metaphysics. There is not a single work which is exclusively devoted to the psychological analysis of mental processes.