In keeping with the requirements of the times, consideration should also be given to teaching the concept of world citizenship as part of the standard education of every child.
The concept of world citizenship is a direct result of the contraction of the world into a single neighbourhood through scientific advances and of the indisputable interdependence of nations.
The new spiritual-aesthetic concept of feasting and enjoyment transformed the former orgies of eating and drinking.
The concept of father had not yet been formed; the family congregated round the mother and saw in her its natural chief; gynecocracy was the prevailing form of government.
I feel tempted to pause here a moment and to say a word in passing about the extreme importance of the constituent elements of the concept self.
Hence we should see to it that the constituent elements of the concept self are of the right kind.
It is obvious that the elements which go to make up the concept self affect the child's moral nature by lowering or raising its self-esteem.
It is evident, therefore, that the emergence of the conceptself must have a decided effect on moral development.
In the other case, the constituents of the concept self may be very different.
At this age the conceptself usually emerges, and the child begins to use the personal pronoun I.
In the case of children, perhaps the principal constituents of the concept are supplied by their outward appearance and environment.
This would provide even for the natural enlargement of the concept world, since every new elementary concept would receive its sign and would then serve as the basis from which to deduce all the complex concepts dependent upon it.
All experiences generalized into one concept are therefore felt or regarded as the same in reference to this concept.
The greater variety of this concept renders possible the presentation of the greater variety of the optical phenomena just mentioned.
The very simplicity of the formula shows that the concept formation which is at the basis of it is especially serviceable.
Geometry is divided into various parts depending upon whether or not the concept of measurement enters.
This example shows how, by the constant increase of the complexity of a concept (here the chemical composition), ever greater and more manifold demands are made upon the co-ordinated scheme.
In other words, one way or another, there was a discrepancy between the concept and the experience, and, as a rule, sooner or later it becomes possible for us to arrive at a better adjustment between them.
Either the co-ordination is direct, so that it is only a matter of providing every concept with a corresponding sign, or it is indirect, the signs serving only the purpose of expressing the language sound.
The conceptof continuity makes possible the development of another concept of greater universality, which can be characterized as an extension of the concept of causation (p.
On the other hand, in the second case, the process is that of consciously disregarding or abstracting the existing differences in order to form a concept into which these do not enter.
We have now seen how, from the physiological construction of our mental apparatus, the process of concept formation and the experience of concept connections are the basis of the whole of mental life.
The biologic peculiarity here mentioned of the linear juxtaposition of the contents of our consciousness has led to the concept of time, which has been appropriately called a form of inner life.
It is in mathematics in especial that the introduction of the concept of continuity and of the function concept arising from it has exercised an extraordinarily deep influence.
But our concept of them as actually existing is also immediate in the sense that at first we spontaneously conceive every object which comes before our consciousness as something existing in itself.
For him substance is an ens praeditum vi agendi: activity is the fundamental note in the concept of substance.
The latter concept abstracts from action and reveals its object simply as "a reality existing in itself".
Contingent being, on the other hand, is being which is conceived not to exist of necessity: being which may be conceived as not actually existent: being in the concept of which is not involved the concept of actual existence.
Considered from the point of view of the logical arrangement of our concepts, each of these categories reveals itself as a primary and immediate limitation of the extension of the transcendental concept of real being itself.
Now through the concept of space we apprehend a reality.
When we think of that possibility as antecedent to all creation, we are thinking of bodies, and of their extension, as possible; and the concept of their total extension as possible is the concept of ideal or possible space.
Nor does our reason fail to realize that by reaching this concept of the specific essence or nature of the individual, Socrates, it has not yet grasped all the reality whereby the individual is what he is.
Footnote 13: This doctrine began in the theological evolution of the Christian concept of God.
I refer to the logical identity which Dedekind first pointed out between the mathematical concept of the ordinal number of series and the philosophical concept of the formal structure of an ideally completed self.
If the theory of numbers belongs to pure mathematics, the study of the place of the number concept in the system of human ideas belongs to philosophy.
From mechanics to chemistry the concept of energy is the most important; and for the last three sciences it is the concept of life.
Here the fundamental concept is rather the thing or object of which nothing more is demanded or considered than that it is a fragment of our experience which can be isolated and will remain so.
It must be frankly admitted that this concept delayed for centuries both in the natural and moral sciences the necessary analysis of the complicated phenomena forming our data.
The purpose of a concept is its use for prediction.
Logic implies an epistemology or theory of cognition in so far as epistemology discusses the concept and judgment and their relations to the real world, and here is to be found its closest connection with psychology.
We come to the concept of magnitude only in the theory of time and space.
When the Dutch black swans became known, it was possible either to drop the element white from the concept swan (as actually happened), or to make a new concept for the bird which is similar to the swan but black.
In general, the scheme runs To the concept M belongs the element B, C belongs under the concept M, Therefore the element B is found in C.
Thus to say "cruel acts are odious because cruel" implies, not only that I can form the concept of a class of cruel acts, but also that of classes of odious acts of which the class of cruel acts in its turn is a member.
It is, in fact, the most important societal concept which the primitive man thought out, and it would be such even if we were now compelled to reject it as erroneous.
Capital is therefore the essential means of man's power over nature, and it implies the purest concept of the power of intelligence to select and dispose of the processes of nature for human welfare.
An institution consists of a concept (idea, notion, doctrine, interest) and a structure.
The external action corresponded closely with the mental concept or story.
The concept of right and truth on either hand may be correct; it is certain that the compromise between them is not correct.
In fact, it is a characteristic of our mores that the form of our thinking about all points of political philosophy is set for us by the concept of rights.
Modern civilized states of the best form are often called jural states because the concept of rights enters so largely into all their constitutions and regulations.
The structure holds the concept and furnishes instrumentalities for bringing it into the world of facts and action in a way to serve the interests of men in society.
The concept of "primitive society"; we-group and others-group.
Everything in the material universe has its origin first in the spiritual conceptor thought, and from this it takes its form.
Many scientists discard the religious or Mosaic concept of a special creation of man and a divine revelation, and hold that the revelations of science are the only revelations of God that the world can regard as reliable.
And as law is the result of an intelligent spiritual concept and impulse, the lawmaker of the universe must be a supreme, intelligent, spiritual personality.
Science has been groping her devious way from colossal blunder to blunder, and championing as many absurdities and superstitions through all the ages as ever the religious devotee dreamed or the religious concept propagated.
In addition to the contradictions and complications of science already mentioned, scarcely a fundamental principle or concept remains.
It fits man's hopes and aspirations, his aesthetic nature, his psychic powers and religious concept which have followed him through all the vicissitudes of his history.
Once with this concept of action clear in his brain, without timidities of hesitation and irresolution, he trotted aft down the long hall.
And Cocky, who could not know death with the clearness of concept of a human, nevertheless was not altogether unaware that the end of all things was terribly impending.
It is frequently a matter of surprise to minds whose view of what is "good" has excluded the concept of energy that persons obviously under the obsession of "evil" are able to display such immense reserves of inexhaustible power.
Instead, it was the English who had not been vigilant and who had allowed a particularly strong concept of liberty to grow strong in Virginians.
The early times of stripping to his underwear and diving off piers into the Chao Phraya river with his brothers had proven the concept of family to be ever so brief.
Numb in his tenebrous tomb, it seemed to him that time was a man-made concept erroneously believed as fully real and tangible because of all the clocks and calendars, made to measure mortality, and things known to have already passed away.
Arrogant and jocular, his was more than contempt of the concept of pre-destiny in relationships, it was also derision for the human vulnerabilities of needing companionship altogether as though he were beyond it.
Yet the ability to couple the abstract algorithm with the concept of a Turing machine undermines this conception.
The valve is the mechanical unit that stands for that thought, a concept reified in standardized material form which does not need to be taken apart and parsed each time it is used.
There is also the divine unity or entity, which is sanctified above all concept of humanity.
We ourselves have an external, visible entity; but even our concept of it is the product of our own brain and limited comprehension.
It does not require transformation from one concept to another.
Essentially it was based upon species compatibility--on the concept that like can interbreed with like.
And so the Brotherhood was born--and the conceptborn of necessity developed its muscles in a thousand battles on a thousand hostile worlds.
They had been fanatics, true enough, but theirs was a selfless fanaticism that would risk torture and death for what they believed--a fanaticism that was more sublime than the concept of Brotherhood which had evolved from it.
Generally, to define the mind, we oppose the concept of mind to the concept of matter, with the result that we get extremely vague images in our thoughts.
Thoughts without content given by sensation are empty; intuitions without concept furnished by the understanding are blind.
This amounts to saying that the discussion of philosophical problems takes especially a verbal aspect; and the more complex the phenomena a concept thus handled, contains, the more dangerous it is.
A concept of the colour red has but a very simple content, and by using it, this content can be very clearly represented.
The basic concept was that of domestic American agitation, as practiced commercially through advertising and socially through the civic clubs.
Less than a month after the 1950 invasion, the Department of the Army announced the approval of a new organizational concept for PsyWar field operational units.
In other words, when Peirce applies his method for clearness to the concept of reality, he reduces reality to truth.
In this general sense it is synonymous withconcept (q.
Preface The Emerson System treats the voice as a natural reporter of the individual, constantly emphasizing the tendency of the voice to express appropriately any mental concept or state of feeling.
This not with severity, but with perfection coming from sensitive response of the articulating organs to the form concept as held in the mind.
But the concept of "monster" hung heavily in the air between the terrestrials and the lizard-man.
Jrann-Pttt probed the raft concept in her mind, for he found the vegetable's mental processes curiously obscure.
We have the concept of permanent bases in military thinking," said Winthrop.
The radical concept of omnipotent power, not tempered as in the West by the humanity of Catholicism, at once rushed headlong to oppression and slavery.
This same philosophical concept inspires all of Tolstoi's writings.
