The statement “know thy self” is attributed to the early Greek philosopher Socrates. How does this statement s?
The statement “know thy self” is attributed to the early Greek philosopher Socrates. How does this statement serve as a “seed” for the development of psychology as a formal discipline some 2,400 years later?
Psychology is a combination of metaphysics (value judgments) and epistemology (how is a value chosen), directed at human behavior as it is related to those values.
You can’t know yourself if you don’t know your own value judgments.