He then began writing one of his best-known works, in which he called for a psychology that would be a science of the soul--not limited to experimental, physiological study but based rather on the rational analysis of human experience.
The nephew of a founder of the Heidelburg Romantic school, he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1864, but religious doubts, exacerbated by the dogma of papal infallibility, led to his resignation from the priesthood in 1873. He then began writing one of his best-known works, in which he called for a psychology that would be a science of the soul--not limited to experimental, physiological study but based rather on the rational analysis of human experience. FTP, name this German philosopher, author of Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte ("Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint"), generally regarded as the founder of act psychology, or intentionalism.
The nephew of a founder of the Heidelburg Romantic school, he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1864, but religious doubts, exacerbated by the dogma of papal infallibility, led to his resignation from the priesthood in 1873.
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