Shifting paradigms in the study of personality: a retrospective survey of western ideas

The birth of the Renaissance movement in the West ushered the scholars as well as the masses into a broader perspective of learning and knowledge seeking. The spirit of the Renaissance paved the way forward for scholars to gain freedom of speech and liberation from their old mindset. Europe th...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas, Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Ahmad Hisham
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Language:	English
Published:	IIUM Press 2014
Subjects:	BF Psychology BF173 Psychoanalysis BF698 Personality BF839.8 Physiognomy. Phrenology
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spelling	iium-394772018-05-23T07:27:28Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/39477/ Shifting paradigms in the study of personality: a retrospective survey of western ideas Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Ahmad Hisham BF Psychology BF173 Psychoanalysis BF698 Personality BF839.8 Physiognomy. Phrenology The birth of the Renaissance movement in the West ushered the scholars as well as the masses into a broader perspective of learning and knowledge seeking. The spirit of the Renaissance paved the way forward for scholars to gain freedom of speech and liberation from their old mindset. Europe that was bursting with new philosophical and scientific ideas also gave its people a wide range of perspectives in understanding man and personality. Secularism and modernism that came as a result of the Renaissance movement caused a shift in the understanding on man and his personality from a religious to a scientific one. In this study, the researchers would like to venture into the areas of man and personality from the Western perspective. Very precisely, the researchers would like to conduct a survey on the shifting paradigms in the field of Western psychology, pertaining to the study on man and personality. Upon performing the survey, the researchers would like to identify and analyze the underlying factors that caused the emergence of the different paradigms in Western psychology IIUM Press 2014-12-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39477/1/Shifting_Paradigms_in_the_Study_of___Personality%28published%29.pdf Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas and Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Ahmad Hisham (2014) Shifting paradigms in the study of personality: a retrospective survey of western ideas. Journal of Islam in Asia, 11 (2). pp. 158-183. ISSN 2289-8077 http://journals.iium.edu.my/jiasia/index.php/Islam
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description	The birth of the Renaissance movement in the West ushered the scholars as well as the masses into a broader perspective of learning and knowledge seeking. The spirit of the Renaissance paved the way forward for scholars to gain freedom of speech and liberation from their old mindset. Europe that was bursting with new philosophical and scientific ideas also gave its people a wide range of perspectives in understanding man and personality. Secularism and modernism that came as a result of the Renaissance movement caused a shift in the understanding on man and his personality from a religious to a scientific one. In this study, the researchers would like to venture into the areas of man and personality from the Western perspective. Very precisely, the researchers would like to conduct a survey on the shifting paradigms in the field of Western psychology, pertaining to the study on man and personality. Upon performing the survey, the researchers would like to identify and analyze the underlying factors that caused the emergence of the different paradigms in Western psychology
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author	Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Ahmad Hisham
author_facet	Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Ahmad Hisham
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title	Shifting paradigms in the study of personality: a retrospective survey of western ideas
title_short	Shifting paradigms in the study of personality: a retrospective survey of western ideas
title_full	Shifting paradigms in the study of personality: a retrospective survey of western ideas
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