The Foundations of Character: Being a Study of the Tendencies of the Emotions and SentimentsA scientific treatment should not diminish, but increase the general interest taken in character. To bring together the various aspects of the subject, which, in literature, are treated in isolation from one another; to lead up to a general conception of it; to study the methods by which the knowledge of it may be increased in accuracy and extent; these are to make approaches to a scientific treatment of character. While I have had chiefly to confine myself to a study of the tendencies of the emotions and sentiments, this has been, throughout, my aim. This book, then, is a study of method. Yet I do not claim that this method is essentially new. It is in the main the hypothetical method of the sciences; it has had to be adapted to the treatment of character: that is all. A complete science of mind would include a science of character. The best approach to such a science is through the study of the primary emotions and their connected instincts. This study is to be directed to an analysis of tendencies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved). |
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... Primitive Varieties of Fear . These to be distinguished by some instinctive mode of behaviour peculiar to each , and the proximate end to which this behaviour is directed as ( 1 ) flight , ( 2 ) concealment , ( 3 ) silence , ( 4 ) a ...
... Primitive Varieties of Fear . These to be distinguished by some instinctive mode of behaviour peculiar to each , and the proximate end to which this behaviour is directed as ( 1 ) flight , ( 2 ) concealment , ( 3 ) silence , ( 4 ) a ...
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... Primitive Varieties of Anger . These varieties distinguished by different forms of instinctive be- haviour directed to different proximate ends , as ( 1 ) Destruction ; ( 2 ) Overcoming opposition ; ( 3 ) Prevention of attack ; ( 4 ) ...
... Primitive Varieties of Anger . These varieties distinguished by different forms of instinctive be- haviour directed to different proximate ends , as ( 1 ) Destruction ; ( 2 ) Overcoming opposition ; ( 3 ) Prevention of attack ; ( 4 ) ...
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... primitive , pp . 246-247 . 2. Of the Common End of Anger . Wherever we find one or other of the instinctive or acquired dis- positions of anger present and active , there we shall say that anger is present , whether the emotion is or ...
... primitive , pp . 246-247 . 2. Of the Common End of Anger . Wherever we find one or other of the instinctive or acquired dis- positions of anger present and active , there we shall say that anger is present , whether the emotion is or ...
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... primitive cry . The system of sorrow , therefore , includes an instinct , pp . 314–317 . CHAPTER X. OF THE LAWS OF THE TENDENCIES OF SORROW IN THE SENTIMENTS . 1. Of Two Different Tendencies of Emotion . Tendencies of emotion are either ...
... primitive cry . The system of sorrow , therefore , includes an instinct , pp . 314–317 . CHAPTER X. OF THE LAWS OF THE TENDENCIES OF SORROW IN THE SENTIMENTS . 1. Of Two Different Tendencies of Emotion . Tendencies of emotion are either ...
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... primitive sorrow , to obtain help . In the sentiment of love , sorrow has a variety of functions : to build up a ... Primitive Disgust and its Distinction from the Emotion Developed from it . That primitive disgust is not an emotion ...
... primitive sorrow , to obtain help . In the sentiment of love , sorrow has a variety of functions : to build up a ... Primitive Disgust and its Distinction from the Emotion Developed from it . That primitive disgust is not an emotion ...
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