Complexion (cf. Temperament)
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| Publication date | 2021 |
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| Book title | Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences |
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| Edition | Living |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Publisher | Cham: Springer |
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| Abstract | The notion of “complexion,” or “temperament,” played a central role in early modern psychological thought. Rooted in ancient humoralism, it assumed a connection between the constitution of the body and the disposition of the mind. In the Antiquity, a system of four temperaments started to develop, which came to include connections to various other tetrads, such as the four ages of man and the four seasons. Despite the decline of humoralist medicine in the seventeenth century, the concept of complexion remained a broadly used psychological category until the end of the eighteenth century. |
| Document type | Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary |
| Note | Living reference work entry |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_402-1 |
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