This Brief presents the argument for the need to re-establish the
theoretical focus of general psychology in contemporary psychological
research. It begins with a detailed account of the current "crisis" of
psychology and our modern disconnect from general psychology. Chapters
present the works of Aristotle and A.N. Leontiev, using their ideas to
outline a long wanted general psychology. The general psychology
delineates the four corner posts of the domain of psychology: Sentience,
Intentionality, Mind, and Human Consciousness, and explains why they are
all necessary but not the same. Besides a historical discussion, which
aims to demonstrate how Marxism got it right, and then not, this Brief
presents a new radical theory of human evolution, which credits the
Adam-and-Eve story with a vital link hitherto missed by Marxism,
Darwinism, and paleoanthropology. In addition, it argues why a new
understanding is important in the Anthropocene Age.
Catching Up with Aristotle will be of interest to psychologists,
undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers.