The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, Volume 7Science Press, 1910 |
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absolute abstract activity analysis appears assertion attention believe Bergson BOOKS REVUE causal character COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY conception consciousness criticism definite discussion doctrine dualism educational psychology empiricism ence entelechy epistemological error esthetic ethical evolution existence experience external fact feeling function fundamental Hegel HUGO MÜNSTERBERG human ical idea idealism idealistic identity implies individual intellectual interest James's JOURNAL judgment Kant Kant's knowledge logical logical values mathematical matter meaning ment mental metaphysical method mind monism moral nature object organism perception philosophy physical physiological Plato possible practical pragmatism present principle problem Professor James proposition psychical psychology question RALPH BARTON PERRY realistic reality reason regard relation religion religious scientific SCIENTIFIC METHODS sensation sense social space spirit stimulus theory things thought tion true truth unity University values Western Philosophical Association whole words
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Page 563 - “which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.” And,
Page 129 - I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 349 - “It is therefore the actual receiving of ideas from without that gives us notice of the existence of other things, and makes us know that something doth exist at that time without us, which causes that idea in us, though perhaps we neither know nor consider how it does it;
Page 429 - Ambition, avarice, selflove, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit: these passions, mixed in various degrees, and distributed through society, have been, from the beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all the actions and enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind.”
Page 560 - dissertation submitted to the faculty of the graduate school of Arts and Literature in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Page 613 - Journal of Philosophy Psychology and Scientific Methods There is no similar journal in the field of scientific philosophy. It is Issued fortnightly and permits the quick publication of short contributions. prompt reviews, and timely discussions. The contents of the last five issues are as follows: Volume
Page 489 - “rested on the assumption of the superiority of the fixed and final; they rested upon treating change and origin as signs of defect and unreality. In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the ‘Origin of Species'
Page 11 - am thinking of Mr. Bradley in particular. For him the absolute is a means of dispensing altogether with relations, and hence is not argued from the necessity of a consciousness that shall supply relations. Mr. Bradley's idealism (“We perceive, on reflection, that to be real, or even barely to exist, must be to fall within sentience.” “Appearance and Reality,”
Page 563 - “Just as we feel no particular pleasure when we breathe freely, but a very intense feeling of distress, when the respiratory motions are prevented,” so “any perfectly fluent course of thought awakens but little feeling,” but “when the thought meets with difficulties, we experience distress.”
Page 563 - “it would follow that our entire feeling of spiritual activity, or what commonly passes by that name, is really a feeling of bodily activities whose exact nature is by most men overlooked.” There