Abridgment of Mental Philosophy: Including the Three Departments of the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will : Designed as a Text-book for Academies and High Schools

Thomas Cogswell Upham

Harper & Brothers, 1870 - Intellect - 564 pages

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ORIGIN OF KNOWLEDGE IN GENERAL	17

Illustration from the case of James Mitchell	23

Of the sense of touch in general and its sensations	26

Idea of externality suggested in connexion with the oush	27

Of the secondary qualities of matter	29

Of the sensations of hardness and softness	30

Of certain indefinite feelings sometimes ascribed to the touch	31

Relation between the sensation and what is outwardly signified	32

Methods of relief adopted in this case	239

Third cause of excited conceptions Attacks of fever	240

Fourth cause of apparitions and other excited conceptions In flammation of the brain	241

Facts having relation to the fourth cause of excited conceptions	242

Fifth cause of apparitions Hysteria	243

CHAPTER XV	244

Of disordered or alienated sensations	245

Of disordered or alienated external perception	246

Of the organ of sight and the uses or benefits of that sens	33

Statement of the mode or process in visual perception	34

THE SENSE OF HEARING	35

The idea of extension not originally from sight	36

Of the knowledge of the figure of bodies by the sight	37

Illustration of the subject from the blind	38

Measurements of magnitude by the	39

Of objects seen in a mist	40

Of the sun and moon when seen in the horizon Pag 38 ib 40	41

CHAPTER VI	46

Of the estimation of distances by sight	54

Signs by means of which we estimate distance by sight	55

Estimation of distance when unaided by intermediate objects	56

Of objects seen on the ocean	57

CHAPTER VII	58

Of habit in relation to the smell	59

Of habit in relation to the taste	60

Of habit in relation to the hearing	62

Application of habit to the touch	64

Other striking instances of habits of touch	65

Habits considered in relation to the sight	66

Origin of the distinction of simple and complex	67

Sensations may possess a relative as well as positive increase of power	68

Of habits as modified by particular callings and arts	69

The law of habit considered in reference to the perception of the outlines and forms of objects	70

Notice of some facts which favour the above doctrine	71

Additional illustrations of Mr Stewarts doctrine	72

CHAPTER VIII	73

Of conceptions of objects of sight	74

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70	85

58	88

CHAPTER X	92

The power of general abstraction in connexion with numbers c	99

Feelings of obligation simple and not susceptible of definition	103

Alleged inability to command the attentior	105

Apparent reality of dreams 1st cause	111

PART II	117

Section Page	120

Of the nature of inity and the origin of that notion	126

Of the origin of the idea of power	132

Consciousnes a ground or law of belief	138

DEMONSTRATIVE REASONING	143

Of complex terms involving the relation of cause and effect	149

Contrast the second general or primary law	155

ASSOCIATION II SECONDARY LAWS Bection Fage 147 Secondary laws and their connexion with the primary	159

Of the influence of lapse of time	160

Secondary law of repetition or habit	161

Of the secondary law of coexistent emotion	162

Original difference in the mental constitution	163

CHAPTER VII	166

Of memory as a ground or law of belief	167

Of differences in the strength of memory	168

Of circumstantial memory or that species of memory which is based on the relations of contiguity in time and place	169

Illustrations of specific or circumstantial memory	170

Of philosophic memory or that species of memory which is based on other relations than those of contiguity	171

Illustrations of philosophic memory	172

Of that species of memory called intentional recollection	173

Nature of intentional recollection	174

Marks of a good memory	175

Directions or rules for the improvement of the memory	177

Further directions for the improvement of the memory	179

Of observance of the truth in connexion with memory	180

CHAPTER VIII	181

Mental action quickened by influence on the physical system	183

Other instances of quickened mental action and of a restoration of thoughts	184

Approval and illustrations of these views from Coleridge	185

Application of the principles of this chapter to education	187

Connexion of this doctrine with the final judgment and a future life	189

CHAPTER IX	190

Definition of reasoning and of propositions	191

Process of the mind in all cases of reasoning	192

Illustration of the preceding statement	193

Grounds of the selection of propositions	194

Reasoning implies the existence of antecedent or assumed propo sitions	195

Further considerations on this subject	196

Of differences in the power of reasoning	197

Of habits of reasoning	198

Of reasoning in connexion with language or expression 4	199

Illustration of the foregoing section	200

Section Pagi 185 Of the subjects of demonstrative reasoning	201

Use of definitions and axioms in demonstrative reasoning	202

The opposites of demonstrative reasonings absurd	203

Demonstrations do not admit of different degrees of belief	204

Of the use of diagrams in demonstrations	205

CHAPTER XI	206

Of the nature of moral certainty	207

Of reasoning from analogy	208

Of reasoning by induction	209

Of combined or accumulated arguments	210

CHAPTER XII	211

Care to be used in correctly stating the subject of discussion	212

Consider the kind of evidence applicable to the subject	213

Fallacia equivocationis or the use of equivocal terms and phrases	215

Of the sophism of estimating actions and character from the c	216

Of adherence to our opinions	217

Effects on the mind of debating for victory instead of truth 218	218

CHAPTER XIII	219

The imagination closely related to the reasoning power	220

Definition of the power of imagination	221

Process of the mind in the creations of the imagination	222

Further remarks on the same subject	223

Grounds of the preference of one conception to another	224

Illustration of the subject from Milton 22	225

Illustration of the statements of the preceding section	227

On the utility of the faculty of the imagination	228

Importance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning	229

CHAPTER XIV	231

Of excited conceptions and of apparitions in general	232

Of the less permament excited conceptions of sound	234

First cause of permanently vivid conceptions or apparitions Morbid sensibility of the retina of the eye	235

Neglect of periodical bloodletting	237

Disordered state or insanity of original suggestion	247

Unsoundness or insanity of consciousness	248

Insanity of the judgment or relative suggestion	249

Disordered or alienated association Lightheadedness	250

Illustrations of this mental disorder	251

Characteristics of emotions of beauty	252

Of the power of reasoning in the partially insane 25	253

Instance of the above form of insanity of reasoning 25	254

Partial mental alienation by means of the imagination	255

Insanity or alienation of the power of belief	256

DIVISION II	259

SENTIENT OR SENSITIVE STATES OF THE MIND SENTIMENTS INTRODUCTION CLASSIFICATION OF THE SENSIBILITIES 240 Referenc...	261

Division of the sensibilities into natural or pathematic and moral	262

The moral and natural sensibilities have different objects	263

The moral sensibilities higher in rank than the natural	264

Classification of the natural sensibilities	265

Classification of the moral sensibilities	266

PART I	267

CHAPTER I	269

The place of emotions considered in reference to other mental acts	270

The character of emotions changes so as to comform to that of perceptions	271

Emotions characterized by rapidity and variet	272

Illustrations of the original beauty of sounds	287

CHAPTER III	293

Summary of views in regard to the beautiful	299

THE DEITY	304

Of sounds as furnishing an occasion of sublime emotions	305

Of what is understood by	311

INSTANCES OF OTHER SIMPLE EMOTIONS	314

CHAPTER I	321

The principles based upon desire susceptible of a twofold	327

Of the na ura desire of esteem	328

Of the desire of esteem as a rule of conduct	329

Of the desire of possession	330

Of the moral character of the possessory principie	331

Of perversions of the possessory desire	332

APPETITES	333

LAWS OF THE WILL IMPLIED IN THE PRESCIENCE OR FORESIGHT OF Section	335

Further illustrations of the principle of curiosity	339

Of the moral character of the desire of power	350

Propensity of selflove or the desire of happiness	351

Of selfishness as distinguished from selflove	352

Reference to the opinions of philosophical writers	353

The principle of sociality original in the human mind	354

Evidence of the existence of this principle of sociality	355

34C Other illustrations of the existence of this principle	356

Practical results of he principle of imitation	357

CHAPTER V	358

Of the complex nature of the affections	359

Of resentment or anger	360

Illustrations of instinctive resentment Peevishness 346 Uses and moral character of instinctive resentment	361

Of voluntary in distinction from instinctive resentment	362

Tendency of anger to excess and the natural checks to	363

Other reasons for checking and subduing the angry passions	365

Modifications of resentment	366

Modifications of resentment	367

Modifications of resentment 353 Modifications of resentment 354 Nature of the passion of fear Envy Jealousy	368

Revenge	369

CHAPTER VI	371

Love in its various forms characterized by a twofold action 357 Of the parental affection	372

Illustrations of the strength of the parental affection	374

Of the filial affection	375

fectior Pagt	395

Further illustrations of the results of the absence of this principle	401

They are susceptible of different degrees	404

Of the origin of secondary active principles	408

approval	413

Classification of the moral sensibilities	414

Of the close connexion between conscience and reasoning	420

Further proof from language and literature	426

Feelings of ob igation have particular reference to the future	431

Of diversities in moral judgment in connexion with differences	437

The mind early occupied either with good or bad principles	443

THE SENSIBILITIES OR SENSITIVE NATURE	449

Disordered action of imitativeness or the principle of imitation	456

Familiar instances of sympathetic imitation	462

The prescience of God directly taught in the Scriptures	463

The foreknowledge of events implies the foreknowledge of vo litions	464

Application of these views to the will	465

The views of this chapter in harmony with the doctrine of the influences of the Holy Spirit CHAPTER IV	466

Man as well as Deity susceptible of foresight	467

Insanity of the affections or passions	468

Prescience of men in respect to their own situation	469

Other familiar instances of this foresight	470

Argument from the regularity of voluntary contributions	471

Of sagacity in the estimate of individual character	472

Foresight of the conduct of masses of men and nations CHAPTER V	473

Of the freedom of the will and of the relation of its freedom to its subjection to	474

CHAPTER IV	475

Evidence of the freedom of the will from consciousness	476

Objection to the argument from consciousness	477

CHAPTER VI	483

475	506

Of the elements of mans moral nature	509

Evidence of freedom of the will from feelings of approval and disapproval	510

Proof of freedom from feelings of remorse	511

Without the possession of liberty of will man could never have framed the abstract notions of right and wrong 482 Proof from feelings of moral obli...	512

The doctrine of the wills freedom equally important with that of its subjection to	518

CHAPTER VII	519

Proof of power in the will from observation	521

Illustration of the subject from the command of temper 492 Further illustrations of this subject 523	523

Illustrated from the prosecution of some general plan	524

The subject illustrated from the first settlers of New England	526

Page	527

Declaration of Locke that the soul has knowledge in itself	3

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Of the subserviency of our conceptions to description 64 Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief 65 Conceptions which are joined with per...	9

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361

On the utility of the domestic affections 364 Of the moral character of the domestic affections and of the be 380

Of the affection of gratitude

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Title	Abridgment of Mental Philosophy: Including the Three Departments of the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will : Designed as a Text-book for Academies and High Schools
Author	Thomas Cogswell Upham
Publisher	Harper & Brothers, 1870
Original from	the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized	25 Jan 2017
Length	564 pages

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