ABSTRACT
§ 1. The history of psychology reached a significant climax in the work of Aristotle. In spite of the numerous differences Aristotle is closely connected with the Socratic and pre-Socratic traditions; in spite of a strong vein of empiricism and a regard for the natural sciences there is still left in Aristotle the speculative temper that verges on mysticism. To the last Aristotle is definitely one of the old school; but so complete was the work produced by this combination of speculative and empirical tendencies, that none of the later schools failed to find in it the starting point of their theories.
