Concept
Four temperaments
Overview
proto-psychological theory
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Of the four temperaments or qualities above mentioned, two are nutritive and prolific, viz. heat and moisture; by these all matter coalesces and is nourished: the other two are noxious and destructive, viz. dryness and cold; by these all matter is decayed and dissipated. Therefore, two of the planets, on account of their temperate quality, and because heat and moisture are predominant in them, are considered by the…
Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
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The Precipitate form of Imperfect Self-Control they are most liable to who are constitutionally of a sharp or melancholy temperament: because the one by reason of the swiftness, the other by reason of the violence, of their passions, do not wait for Reason, because they are disposed to follow whatever notion is impressed upon their minds. Again, the man utterly destitute of Self-Control, as was observed before, is…
Aristotle, The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle
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There is then something in our judgements upon nature which makes us attentive to its purposiveness for our Understanding--an endeavour to bring, where possible, its dissimilar laws under higher ones, though still always empirical--and thus, if successful, makes us feel pleasure in that harmony of these with our cognitive faculty, which harmony we regard as merely contingent. On the other hand, a representation of…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
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Philosophers who discussed Four temperaments
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- Anthroposophy
- Problem of evil
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Place in the tradition
Part of Vitalism.