Psychology

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Harper and Bros., 1886 - 427 páginas

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Página 241 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 40 - But what consciousness is, we know not ; and how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story, or as any other ultimate fact of nature.
Página 133 - Attention is t/tat activity of the self which connects all elements presented to it into one whole, with reference to their ideal significance ; that is, with reference to the relation which they bear to some intellectual end.
Página 244 - The true self-related must be the organic unity of the self and the world, of the idea and the real, and this is what we know as God.
Página 429 - FRS 18mo, Muslin, 45 cents; Half Bound, 50 cents. Abercrombie on the Moral Feelings. The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings. With Questions. 18mo, Muslin, 40 cents ; Half Bound, 50 cents.
Página 400 - In brief, the difference is that a prudential act is measured by the result ; the moral, by the motive. A man may intend, for example, to gain a certain advantage for himself by embarking in a certain line of action, but his knowledge is limited. New circumstances occur, and his purpose is thwarted. The action turns out to be a disadvantageous or imprudent one. But if a man intends a moral action the result cannot be immoral, however unforeseen or deplorable it may be. On the other hand, an act which...
Página 12 - ... remained a passive spectator of the universe, but has produced and is producing certain results. These results are objective, can be studied as all objective historical facts may be, and are permanent. They are the most fixed, certain, and universal signs to us of the way in which mind works. Such objective manifestations of mind are, in the realm of intelligence, phenomena like language and science; in that of will, social and political institutions; in that of feeling, art; in that of the whole...
Página 40 - if we possessed an absolutely perfect knowledge of the body, including the brain and all changes in it, the psychical state known as sensation would be as incomprehensible as now. For the very highest knowledge we could get would reveal to us only matter in motion, and the connection between any motions of any atoms in my brain, and such unique, undeniable facts as that I feel pain, smell a rose, see red, is thoroughly incomprehensible.
Página 11 - They are the most fixed, certain, and universal signs to us of the way in which the mind works. Such objective manifestations of mind are, in the realm of . intelligence, phenomena like language and science; in that of ! will, social and political institutions; in that of feeling, art; in that of the whole self, religion.

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