self-science

plural self-sciences

1. datedA systematic study of one's own inner world, using methods from science, psychology and self-reflection.

   It shews us with what exactness and care we are to search and try our spirits, examine ourselves, and watch our ways, and keep our hearts, in order to acquire this important self-science.

   1745, John Mason, A Treatise on Self Knowledge, page 5

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   Egoistical philosophy is best corrected by sound and thorough self-science; and the depreciation or undue exaltation of the church is best counteracted and cured by exact and comprehensive church-science.

   1852, John G. Manly, Ecclesiography: Or, The Biblical Church Analytically Delineated, page XXI

   Subjects of the curriculum would include courses in physics, chemistry, mathematics, life sciences and their application, social sciences in an integrated fashion and self-sciences such as literature, biography, philosophy, psychology and art.

   1978, A. S. Seetharamu, Philosophies of Education, page 76