Psychology, being the science of human nature, ought to be of use in all fields where one needs to know the causes of human action.
And psychology is applicable in these fields to the extent that the psychologist is able to work out the laws and principles of human action.
The psychological attitude is that of seeking to find and understand the causes of human action, and the causes, consequences, and significance of the processes of the human mind.
From this we see that for the most part a very low idea of personality, a very low derivation of the motives of human action, is found in the works of Darwinistic moralists--as, e.
Here the practical reason appears as the source and origin of the undeniable ethical significance of human action, and of all virtue, all nobleness, and every attainable degree of holiness.
What he denies is that any of them singly, or all of them collectively, can ever furnish an adequate and exhaustive account of human action.
The doctrine of causality in human action is far from being what it is sometimes called, a doctrine of fatalism.
He calls attention to the necessary character of human actionas evidenced by its uniformities under uniform circumstances, in the various important relations of life.
Fatalism assumes that, whatever a man may do, a power outside him determines the event; but the recognition of cause and effect in human action is the recognition of the fact that the actions of human beings are never without result.
Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action, New York, 1877.
The earth as modified by human action is a conspicuous fact of historical development.
Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action, chap.
Hazlitt's first publication, "On the Principles of Human Action.
Once more: "The greatest happiness of all those whose interest is in question is the right and proper, and the only right and proper and universally desirable end of human action.
The greatest happiness of all those whose interest is in question is the right and proper, and the only right and proper and universally desirable end of human action.
With the rise of business enterprise as a distinct sphere of human action, the way was opened for a new force to manifest itself.
Hedonism means that pleasure is the end of human action, because the end of desire.
We therefore hold to the certainty of human action, and so part company with the Arminian.
Human action is not simply the expression of previously dominant affections; else Neither Satan nor Adam could have fallen, nor could the Christian ever sin.
And having identified the Chief Good with the final and perfect end of all action, the great question of the Ethics is, "What is the end of human action?
Human intelligence is thought to mark an artificial interference if it does more than register fixed natural laws as rules of human action.
When the notion was expelled from natural science by the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth century, logically it should also have disappeared from the theory of human action.
If you bring in Will at all as an arbiter of human action, do you not thereby drive out everything else?
This ‘long run’ or universal point of view, which makes identical the interests of the Whole and the interests of the individual, gives to a natural ethics the criterion for all human action.
We are inclined to assume, therefore, and I think we are perfectly right in assuming, that when the Will appears in human action it is far more often to good purpose than to evil.
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
The regulation of human action, on the other hand (except on occasions of special difficulty, for which omens and oracles might be vouchsafed), they had left to human reason.
Nor can the doctrine derive any real support from consideration either of the 'unconscious' or the 'original' aim of human action.
In the first place, it is urged that Pleasure, though not the only conscious aim of human action, is yet always the result to which it is unconsciously directed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human action" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
