%0 Journal Article
%T Szuman on Historical Character of Personality Development
%A Niemczyński, Adam
%J Developmental Psychology
%V 2023
%R 10.4467/20843879PR.23.003.18178
%N Volume 28 Issue 1
%P 37-53
%K mind, personality, character, historical method, positivism, empiricism
%@ 1895-6297
%D 2023
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/psychologia-rozwojowa/article/szuman-o-historycznym-charakterze-rozwoju-osobowosci-czlowieka
%X 
	At the beginning of his scientific career Szuman (1930a) indicted the individual personality development to be the object of his psychological investigations. He put a stress on historical
	character of the personality development and the role of significant deeds in it. He placed psychology of human development among humanistic disciplines of investigation in his book on human personality and character (Szuman 2014). Psychology of child and adolescent development also belong to them and are irreducible to the development of human biological organism. Child’s own actions and upbringing as well as education branch the development of individual human beings out of biology without detaching it from biology nonetheless. Szuman’s historical psychology of the individual personal development did not completely abandon a stance represented in the theory of cognition called the British empiricism, although he clearly put aside positivistic philosophy of science. It is necessary to emancipate historical psychology from the obstacles of the British empiricism’s theory of cognition in order to continue its progress. Niemczyński (2017) seems to go in this direction.