Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 2Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy, 1924 - Philosophy |
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... essentials different from that of the great Pope Hildebrand . Writers like Chesterton and Belloc do their best to " lend an idealism to reaction , " but the Roman system of ecclesiastical imperialism and theological absolutism is ...
... essentials different from that of the great Pope Hildebrand . Writers like Chesterton and Belloc do their best to " lend an idealism to reaction , " but the Roman system of ecclesiastical imperialism and theological absolutism is ...
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... essential in order to appreciate not only his place in the development of human thought but also his personal difficulties in his fight for " freedom of philosophising " and in his attempts to publish his own work . A very few facts ...
... essential in order to appreciate not only his place in the development of human thought but also his personal difficulties in his fight for " freedom of philosophising " and in his attempts to publish his own work . A very few facts ...
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... essential tendencies of modern philosophy , in spite , finally , of the immense weight of disfavour cast upon him by the long - repeated charge of atheism , Spinoza's name has silently risen in importance , the man and his work have ...
... essential tendencies of modern philosophy , in spite , finally , of the immense weight of disfavour cast upon him by the long - repeated charge of atheism , Spinoza's name has silently risen in importance , the man and his work have ...
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... essential virtue of patriotism . Pre - eminent , or , at all events , most widely celebrated , displays of the quality just mentioned have usually been associated with wars and periods of great national danger . But it were altogether ...
... essential virtue of patriotism . Pre - eminent , or , at all events , most widely celebrated , displays of the quality just mentioned have usually been associated with wars and periods of great national danger . But it were altogether ...
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... essential to the development of humanity . It would be very difficult to establish either of these claims . No one will deny that among the leaders of western civili- sation are to be found men of the highest character and attainment ...
... essential to the development of humanity . It would be very difficult to establish either of these claims . No one will deny that among the leaders of western civili- sation are to be found men of the highest character and attainment ...
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Page 165 - We may say, then, that directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity; by the conative or impulsive force of some instinct (or of some habit derived from an instinct), every train of thought, however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along towards its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all activities and supply the driving power by which all mental activities are sustained...
Page 287 - That the glory of this world in the end is appearance leaves the world more glorious, if we feel it is a show of some fuller splendour; but the sensuous curtain is a deception and a cheat, if it hides some colourless movement of atoms, some spectral woof of impalpable abstractions, or unearthly ballet of bloodless categories.
Page 164 - THE human mind has certain innate or inherited tendencies which are the essential springs or motive powers of all thought and action, whether individual or collective, and are the bases from which the character and will of individuals and of nations are gradually developed under the guidance of the intellectual faculties.
Page 165 - We may, then, define an instinct as an inherited or innate psycho-physical disposition which determines its possessor to perceive, and to pay attention to, objects of a certain class, to experience an emotional excitement of a particular quality upon perceiving such an object, and to act in regard to it in a particular manner, or, at least, to experience an impulse to such action.
Page 284 - I fasted much, and walked abroad in solitary places many days, and often took my Bible, and went and sat in hollow trees and lonesome places till night came on ; and frequently, in the night, walked mournfully about by myself: for I was a man of sorrows in the times of the first workings of the Lord in me.
Page 176 - If ideas, meanings, conceptions, notions, theories, systems are instrumental to an active reorganization of the given environment, to a removal of some specific trouble and perplexity, then the test of their validity and value lies in accomplishing this work. If they succeed in their office, they are reliable, sound, valid, good, true. If they fail to clear up confusion, to eliminate defects, if they increase confusion, uncertainty and evil when they are acted upon, then are they false.
Page 165 - McDougall defines an instinct as an inherited or innate psycho-physical disposition which determines its possessor to perceive and to pay attention to objects of a certain class, to experience an emotional excitement of a particular quality on perceiving such an object, and to act in regard to it in a particular manner, or at least to experience an impulse to such action.
Page 45 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise. Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, . . Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 108 - The purpose of the Public Elementary School is to form and strengthen the character and to develop the intelligence of the children entrusted to it, and to make the best use of the school years available, in assisting both girls and boys, according to their different needs, to fit themselves, practically as well as intellectually, for the work of life.
Page 295 - I conceive that marriage, as understood in Christendom, may for this purpose be defined as the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others.