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, 1869 - Intellect - 564 pages

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CHAPTER II	24

CHAPTER III	30

Section	33

Varieties of the sensation of sound	36

CHAPTER V	38

Origin of the notion of extension and of form or figure	40

On the sensations of heat and cold	41

Of the sensations of hardness and softness	42

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

Of adherence to our opinions	217

Effects on the mind of debating for victory instead of truth	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

Of certain indefinite feelings sometimes ascribed to the touch	44

Relation between the sensation and what is outwardly signified	45

CHAPTER VI	46

Statement of the mode or process in visual perception	47

Of the original and acquired perceptions of sight	48

The idea of extension not originally from sight	49

Of the knowledge of the figure of bodies by the sight	50

Illustration of the subject from the blind	51

Measurements of magnitude by the	52

Of objects seen in a mist 41 Of the sun and moon when seen in the horizon	53

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

Sensations may possess a relative as well as positive increase of CHAPTER VIII	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

Meaning and characteristics of conceptions	73

Of conceptions of objects of sight	74

Of the influence of habit on our conceptions	76

Influence of habit on conceptions of sight 63 Of the subserviency of our conceptions to description	77

Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief	78

Conceptions which are joined with perceptions	81

CHAPTER IX	83

Nature and characteristics of simple mental states ib 69 Simple mental states not susceptible of definition	84

Simple mental states representative of a reality	85

Origin of complex notions and their relation to simple	86

gs	87

The precise sense in which complexness is to be understood	88

Illustrations of analysis as applied to the mind	89

Complex notions of external origin	90

Of objects contemplated as wholes	91

CHAPTER X	92

Abstraction implied in the analysis of complex ideas 37388548828	94

General abstract notions the same with genera and species	95

Process in classification or the forming of genera and species	96

Early classifications sometimes incorrect 83 Illustrations of our earliest classifications	97

Of the nature of general abstract ideas	98

The power of general abstraction in connexion with numbers c	99

Of the speculations of philosophers and others	100

CHAPTER XI	101

Of different degrees of attention	102

Dependence of memory on attention	103

Of exercising attention in reading	104

Alleged inability to command the attentior	105

CHAPTER XII	107

Dreams are often caused by our sensations	108

Explanation of the incoherency of dreams 1st cause	110

Apparent reality of dreams 1st cause	111

Apparent reality of dreams 2d cause	112

Of our estimate of time in dreaming	113

Explanation of the preceding statements	114

PART II	117

CHAPTER I	119

Declaration of Locke that the soul has knowdge in itself	120

There may also be internal accessions to knowledge	121

Instances of notions which have an internal origin 107 Other instances of ideas which have an internal origin	122

CHAPTER II	123

Ideas of existence mind selfexistence and personal identity	124

Of the nature of inity and the origin of that notion 111 Nature of succession and origin of the idea of succession	127

Origin of the notion of duration 113 Illustrations of the nature of duration	128

Of time and its measurements and of eternity	129

The idea of space not of external origin	130

The idea of space has its origin in suggestion	131

Of the origin of the idea of power 118 Occasions of the origin of the idea of power	132

Of the ideas of right and wrong	133

Origin of the ideas of moral merit and demerit	134

Of other elements of knowledge developed suggestion 122 Suggestion a source of principles as well as of ideas	135

CHAPTER III	136

CHAPTER IV	140

Occasions on which feelings of relation may arise	141

Of the use of correlative terms 130 Of relations of identity and diversity	142

11 Relations of degree and names expressive of them	143

111 Of relations of proportion	144

v Of relations of place or position	145

v Of relations of time	146

v Of ideas of possession	147

VII Of relations of cause and effect	148

Of complex terms involving the relation of cause and effect	149

Connexion of relative suggestion with reasoning	150

CHAPTER V	151

Of the general laws of association	152

Resemblance the first general law of association	153

Of resemblance in the effects produced	154

Contrast the second general or primary	155

Contiguity the third general or primary	157

Cause and effect the fourth primary	158

ALSOCIATION II SECONDARY LAWS Bection 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

The foregoing as applicable to the sensibilities 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 CHAPTER IX	180

Of differences the power of reasoning CHAPTER VIII	181

Mental action quickened by influence on the physical system 169 Other instances of quickened mental action and of a restoration of thoughts 170 Ef...	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

REASONING	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

Of habits of reasoning	198

Of reasoning in connexion with language or expression	199

Illustration of the foregoing section 166	200

Section Pagt 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 liagrams 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 2	212

Consider the kind of evidence applicable to the subject	213

Fallacia equivocationis or the use of equivocal terms and phrases	215

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

Methods of relief adopted in this case	239

Of disordered or alienated sensations	245

Illustrations of this mental disorder	251

Characteristics of emotions of beauty	252

Of what is meant by beautiful objects	253

Of the distinction between beautiful and other of ects	254

Grounds or occasions of emotions of beauty various	255

All objects not equally fitted to cause these emotions	256

A susceptibility of emotions of beauty an ultimate principle of our mental constitution	257

Remarks on the beauty of forms The circle	258

THE SENSIBILITIES	259

Of the beauty of straight and angular forms	260

Of square pyramidal and triangular forms	261

Of the original or intrinsic beauty of colours	262

Further illustrations of the original beauty of colours	263

Of sounds considered as a source of beauty	264

Classification of the natural sensibilities	265

Further instances of the original beauty of sounds	266

CHAPTER IV	269

Connexion between beauty and sublimity	276

The occasions of the emotions of sublimity various	277

Great extent or expansion an occasion of sublimity	278

Conceptions as conrected with fictitious representations	279

Of depth in connexion with the sublime	280

Of colours in connexion with the sublime	281

CHAPTER III	293

Objects may become beautiful by association merely	294

Further illustrations of associated feelings	295

Instances of national associations	297

The sources of associated beauty coincident with those of human happiness	298

Summary of views in regard to the beautiful	299

Of sounds as furnishing an occasion of sublime emotions 283 Of motion in connexion with the sublime	305

Indications of power accompanied by emotions of the sublime	306

Of the original or primary sublimity of objects 286 Considerations in proof of the original sublimity of objects	307

Influence of association on emotions of sublimity	308

CHAPTER V	309

Gezeral nature of emo ons of the ludicrous 289 Occasions of emotions of the ludicrous	310

Of what is understood by wit 291 Of wit as it consists in burlesque or in debasing objects	311

of wit when employed in aggrandizing objects	312

Of the character and occasions of humour	313

Of the practical utility of feelings of the ludicrous	314

NATURE OF DESIRES	321

The principles based upon desire susceptible of a twofold	327

PROPENSITIES	336

Section Pagi 328 Of the na ura desire of esteem	341

Of the desire of esteem as a rule of conduct	345

Of the desire of possession	346

Of the moral character of the possessory principie	347

Of perversions of the possessory desire	348

Of the desire of power	349

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

340	356

Relation of the social principle to civil society	357

CHAPTER V	358

Of the complex nature of the affections	359

Of resentment or anger	360

Illustrations of instinctive resentment	361

Of voluntary in distinction from instinctive resentment	362

Tendency of anger to excess and the natural checks to it	363

Other reasons for checking and subduing the angry passions	365

Modifications of resentment Peevishness	366

Modifications of resentment Envy	367

Modifications of resentment Jealousy	368

Modifications of resentment Revenge	369

CHAPTER VI	371

Love in its various forms characterized by a twofold action	372

Illustrations of the strength of the parental affection	374

Of the filial affection	375

The filial affection original or implanted	376

Illustrations of the filial affection	377

168	379

On the utility of the domestic affections	380

Of the moral character of the domestic affections and of the be nevolent affections generally	381

Of the moral character of the voluntary exercises of the benevo lent affections	382

Of the connexion between benevolence and rectitude	383

Of humanity or the love of the human race	384

Further proofs in support of the doctrine of an innate humanity or love for the human race	386

Proofs cf a humane or philanthropic principle from the existence of benevolent institutions	387

Other remarks in proof of the same doctrine	388

Of patriotism or love of country	389

Of the affection of friendship	390

Of the affection of pity or sympathy	391

Of the moral character of pity	392

Of the affection of gratitude	394

fectior Page	395

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

Feelings of ob igation have particular reference to the future	407

Of the origin of secondary active principles 498	408

Classification of the moral sensibilities	414

Of the close connexion between conscience and reasoning	420

Further proof from language and literature	426

Feelings of obligation subsequent in time to the moral emotions	431

Influence of early associations on moral judgments	440

Of the importance in a moral point of view of adopting correct	446

433	458

439	464

Of sudden and strong impulses of the mind	467

174	468

444	471

Disordered action of the passion of fear	473

VOLITIONS OR VOLITIONAL STATES OF MIND	481

Of the disordered and alienated action of the appetites	483

Volitions involve a prospective element	488

LAWS OF THE WILL IMPLIED IN THE PRESCIENCE OR FORESIGHT	493

Prescience of men in respect to their own situation	499

CHAPTER V	505

Proof of freedom from feelings of remorse	511

483	514

Both views are to be fully received	517

488	520

Illustration of the subject from the command of temper	523

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47 48 49 50 51 52 53 ib 54 55 56 57 AAROCI33 83 272	7

60 62 64 65 6 68 69 70	8

ib 78 81	9

ib 129 130 131	13

Consciousness the 2d source of internal knowledge its nature 136	14

ib 152 153 154 155 157 158

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ib 303 304 ib 305 308 307 b 308 309

ib 312 313 314

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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, 1869
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	20 Mar 2008
Length	564 pages

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