PsychologyLongmans, Green & Company, 1890 - 569 pages |
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... consciousness , while soul refers to it as the root of all forms of vital activity . Spirit is of still narrower extension than mind , indicating properly a being capable of the higher , rational , or intellectual order of conscious ...
... consciousness , while soul refers to it as the root of all forms of vital activity . Spirit is of still narrower extension than mind , indicating properly a being capable of the higher , rational , or intellectual order of conscious ...
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... consciousness . Now states of consciousness can only be observed by introspection — that is , by the turning of the mind in on itself . Consequently this faculty of internal observation must be our chief instrument in the study of the ...
... consciousness . Now states of consciousness can only be observed by introspection — that is , by the turning of the mind in on itself . Consequently this faculty of internal observation must be our chief instrument in the study of the ...
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... consciousness , ingenious and 1 The truth of this remark is strikingly illustrated in the history of Mental Philosophy in this country by the manner in which the relational activity of the mind - its power of apprehending universal ...
... consciousness , ingenious and 1 The truth of this remark is strikingly illustrated in the history of Mental Philosophy in this country by the manner in which the relational activity of the mind - its power of apprehending universal ...
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... consciousness . 2. Again , it is a maxim of " inductive philosophy that observation should begin with simple instances , ascent being made from them step by step through appropriate generalizations . " ( Maudsley , p . 19. ) More- over ...
... consciousness . 2. Again , it is a maxim of " inductive philosophy that observation should begin with simple instances , ascent being made from them step by step through appropriate generalizations . " ( Maudsley , p . 19. ) More- over ...
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... Consciousness which does not even tell us that we have a brain is certainly incompetent to give any account of the essential material conditions of our mental life . " ( p . 21. ) ( b ) Mental life itself , too , is largely beyond the ...
... Consciousness which does not even tell us that we have a brain is certainly incompetent to give any account of the essential material conditions of our mental life . " ( p . 21. ) ( b ) Mental life itself , too , is largely beyond the ...
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Page 456 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 344 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Page 344 - The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.
Page 357 - I believe that these sources of evidence, impartially consulted, will declare that desiring a thing and finding it pleasant, aversion to it and thinking of it as painful, are phenomena entirely inseparable or rather two parts of the same phenomenon; in strictness of language, two different modes of naming the same psychological fact...
Page 239 - I can imagine a man with two heads, or the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse. I can consider the hand, the eye, the nose, each by itself abstracted or separated from the rest of the body. But then whatever hand or eye I imagine, it must have some particular shape and color.
Page 330 - But, additional to this, we have a capacity of reflecting upon actions and characters, and making them an object to our thought; and, on doing this, we naturally and unavoidably approve some actions, under the peculiar view of their being virtuous and of good desert; and disapprove others, as vicious and of ill-desert.
Page 367 - ... in the moment of deliberate volition. It is impossible for me to think, at such a moment, that my volition is completely determined by my formed character and the motives acting upon it.
Page 330 - THAT which renders beings capable of moral government, is their having a moral nature, and moral faculties of perception and of action. Brute creatures are impressed and actuated by various instincts and propensions : so also are we. But additional to this, we have a capacity of reflecting upon actions and characters, and...
Page 331 - For, as much as it has been disputed wherein virtue consists, or whatever ground for doubt there may be about particulars, yet, in general, there is in reality a universally acknowledged standard of it. It is that, which all ages and all countries have made profession of in public ; it is that, which every man you meet, puts on the show of; it is that, which the primary and fundamental laws of all civil constitutions, over the face of the earth, make it their business and endeavour to enforce the...