Thymology
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Thymology is the study of those human aspects that precede or cause purposeful human behavior.[1]
History
Ludwig von Mises wrote:
Thymology is a branch of history or, as Collingwood formulated it, it belongs in 'the sphere of history.' It deals with the mental activities of men that determine their actions. It deals with the mental processes that result in a definite kind of behavior, with the reactions of the mind to the conditions of the individual's environment. It deals with something invisible and intangible that cannot be perceived by the methods of the natural sciences. But the natural sciences must admit that this factor must be considered as real also from their point of view, as it is a link in a chain of events that result in changes in the sphere the description of which they consider as the specific field of their studies.[2]
See also
- Behavioral economics
- Bounded rationality
- Cognitive science
- Methodological individualism
- Praxeology
- Self-efficacy
- Semiotics
- Social actions
References
- ↑ Lavoie, Don and Storr, Virgil Henry, Distinction or Dichotomy: Rethinking the Line between Thymology and Praxeology (January 7, 2011). Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 24, No. 2, p. 213, 2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1973646
- ↑ von Mises, Ludwig The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
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