Social utilitarianism has stood in need of correction both from psychologyand from sociology.
Nowhere could psychology render more service to jurisprudence than in giving us a psychological theory of nuda pacta.
The most important part was played by psychology which undermined the foundation of the metaphysical will-philosophy of law.
It is one thing to deduce it from an abstract psychology which holds that human nature is unresistingly plastic in the hands of the legislator and the instructor.
In other words, the study of the development of societies must be based on psychology; and for Turgot, as for all his progressive contemporaries, psychology meant the philosophy of Locke.
It must itself depend on laws of mind and character (psychology and ethology).
The difference was that the German thinkers sought their principle in logic and applied it a priori, while Vico sought his in concrete psychology and engaged in laborious research to establish it a posteriori by the actual data of history.
It pervaded the speculation of the age, and was formally deduced from the sensational psychology of Locke and Condillac.
These principles still controlled thought, but the particular views of Descartes on mental phenomena were superseded in France by the psychology of Locke, whose influence was established by Voltaire and Condillac.
The philosophical views current in Germany during the period in which the psychology of Locke was in fashion in France and before the genius of Kant opened a new path, were based on the system of Leibnitz.
In the fall of the same year he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, and at the same time pursued studies in philosophy, history, and psychology in the university under the eminent Doctor McCosh.
At the same time he entered Princeton College to study the History of Philosophy and Psychology under the great Dr.
Language, physiology and psychology confirm the truthfulness of Scripture on this issue.
A comparative study of animal psychology teaches that all animals are prejudiced against animals unlike themselves, and the more unlike they are the greater the prejudice.
Only the preconceptions of hedonistic psychology would ever lead one to deny the existence of reactions and impulses called out by the sight of others' misery and joy and which tend to increase the latter and to relieve the former.
But the difficulty is that there is no chance, upon the hedonistic psychology of desire, for this rational conviction to get in its work, even if it be intellectually entertained.
For a general discussion of the Moral Self, see Bosanquet, Psychology of the Moral Self; Ladd, Philosophy of Conduct, ch.
James, in his psychology of the self, calls the recognition which a man gets from his mates his "social self.
Psychology has assumed new significance as their instrument.
There was a profound truth which underlay the old psychology in which "the heart" meant at once character and passion.
Ethics must employ their methods and results for this aspect of its problem, as it employs psychology for the examination of conduct on its inner side.
Yet the same gradual decay to which, after a certain age, all the language of psychology seems liable, has been at work even here.
Ethology stands to Psychology in a relation very similar to that in which the various branches of natural philosophy stand to mechanics.
In his Psychology of Revolution (L'Esprit de Revolte, p.
Cesare Lombroso, The Anarchists, a Study in Criminal Psychologyand Sociology.
We do well to gather in every available fact which biology or anthropology or psychology can give us that throws light on human behaviour, or on primitive cults, or on the richer subjective and social religious functions of full-grown men.
Like any other natural science, psychology is limited to description and causal explanation of the phenomena of its special field, which in this case is states of consciousness.
Is that difficult to believe in these days, when psychology is teaching us how all-important thought is?
That modern psychology has already made strides in the knowledge of this problem we all know.
No one who studies psychology to-day can fail to realize how unconscious people often are of the seat and the nature of their own troubles.
All the help that psychology and medical science can give (and it is much) should be given to and accepted by such people.
Modern psychology is lifting the veil to-day from the suffering which repression causes.
It is always the code of morals imposed from without that does mischief, and results in the repressions and perversions about which modern psychology has taught us so much.
Among other advantages to be gained by a logical study of the psychology of color is the establishment of more accurate color terms and definitions.
This transcendental psychology is considered below (p.
The rationalists sought to deduce the whole body of rational psychology from the a priori conception of the soul as a simple substance, and of rational theology from the a priori conception of God as the all-perfect Being.
I may hazard the further suggestion that Kant's interpretation of rational psychology in terms of the Critical doctrine of apperception is of earlier date than his doctrine of transcendental illusion.
The proofs propounded by rational psychology are logically imperfect, committing the logical fallacy which is technically named paralogism.
If the chief function of rational psychology consists in securing the conception of the soul against the onslaughts of materialism,[1443] that can be much more effectively attained through transcendental idealism.
I should like to understand the psychologyof all characters.
I guess your feminine psychology is at fault there, Count.
Analytical psychology is distinguished from genetic and empirical psychology inasmuch as it proceeds by the method of introspective investigation of mental phenomena instead of by physiological or psycho-physical experiment.
Herbert Spencer, in his First Principles, Principles of Psychology and Essays, has given an interesting turn to the psychology of aesthetics by the application of his doctrine of evolution.
Though empirical psychology has in the last fifty years had as rapid a development as any other department of science, it has never departed essentially from the direction fixed by Herbart.
In this way we get the leading features of soul-life, which reminds us sufficiently of psychology for our immediate purpose.
In Herbart's psychology it assumes a most important place, since the primacy of mental life is, in this system, ascribed to ideas.
On the other hand, the assumption of unlimited plasticity is equally inadmissible; it is for psychology to guard against this error.
The reason for this is that rational psychology deals with unchangeable presuppositions of mind.
By =Reuben Post Halleck=, Author of "Psychology and Psychic Culture.
The moment one tries to apply rationalpsychology to actual teaching, one begins to rise into the clouds, to become vague or, at least, general.
In a much less degree he was influenced by Bacon, whose psychology he ultimately condemned; but from Hobbes he took not only his rationalistic attitude towards "revelation," but his doctrine of ecclesiastical subordination.
The laws of psychology are not suspended when religion is concerned; there as elsewhere persistent attention is the price of a vivid sense of reality.
Eugenically interesting, this habit of nursing children up to the age of two or even three years of age is not uncommon, and it throws a strong light upon the psychology of French Motherhood.
One might speculate a little on the psychology of houses.
Those who know something of mob psychology will readily understand this.
That is a question upon which psychology has not yet pronounced, but there are not a few who regard it as the real personality.
Of late years the comparatively new science of psychology has begun to throw an amount of valuable light upon the mystery of human personality.
Such psychology is not very rare and really from the point of view of the combat itself one cannot very well blame him.
The foundation of his mother’s psychology was her delightful unexpectedness.
Some of the Consequences of adoption of the New Principles, in their application to the physical sciences and mathematics, and then to psychology and theology, are unfolded in the remaining sections of the Principles.
This proposition, however, to which a safe induction seems to lead, is far afield from the substantiation of the old conception of brain localization, which was based on faulty psychology and equally faulty inductions from few premises.
The liberation of the insane from their dungeons was an augury of the liberation of psychology from the musty recesses of metaphysics.
It made a fine commotion, be assured, for it was the first widely heralded bulletin of the new psychology in its march upon the strongholds of the time-honored metaphysics.
Some clue to its psychology is revealed by the fact that even Adam and Eve got tired of it.
In an examination into the psychology and methods of the woman writer, two things should be clearly kept in mind.
It is a fact, belonging rather to the science of psychology than of medicine, that small sicknesses hurt more than big ones.
Again, within the last ten years we have had Algernon Blackwood, using his imagination to apply psychology to the study of the supernatural, and so developing a field peculiar to himself.
Psychology helped here by suggesting a unit--the point of history when man held the highest idea of himself as a unit in a unified universe.
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