I mean: it is hasty and almost unreflective to assume that progress must necessarily take place: but how can it be doubted that progress is possible?
Under these conditions we get such questions as the following: What is the relation of rational thought to crude orunreflective experience?
The unreflective world is a world of practical things; of ends and means, of their effective adaptations; of control and regulation of conduct in view of results.
He expressly makes meaning to be the product of thought's activity and also the unreflective material out of which thought's operations grow.
I resume by saying that this point of view knows no fixed distinction between the empirical things and values of unreflective life and the most abstract process of rational thought.
I do not mean that this holds in gross of theunreflective world of experience over against the critical thought-situation--such a contrast implies the very wholesale, at large, consideration of thought which I am striving to avoid.
He allows unreflective experience, defined in terms of sensations and their combinations, to provide material conditions for thinking, while he reserves for thought a distinctive work and dignity of its own.
Through the inordinate number of hours when she was potentially alone she had developed a strain of almost painful thought out of keeping with the whole of her naturallyunreflective being.
The artificial objects that are regarded, in a few cases, as totems are probably of late origin, the product of reflection, and thus differing from the old totems, which arise in anunreflective time.
The promiscuity that obtains in many savage communities before marriage is a naïve unreflective animal procedure.
Intellectual interest in, and the scientific observation of, human traits and human behavior have their origin in this natural interest and unreflective observation by man of his fellows.
Philosophy is a process of reflection upon the presuppositions involved in unreflective thought.
Now, in the development of instruments generally, we may distinguish a rule-of-thumb or more or less unreflective stage of construction, and one entirely reflective.
Because of this, reasoned belief now takes the place of unreflective trust as that was experienced in the impersonal stage of judgment.
A correlate to the unreflectiveimpersonal judgment is found in early custom.
I resume by saying that this point of view knows no fixed distinction between the empirical values of unreflective life and the most abstract process of rational thought.
The unreflective world is a world of practical values; of ends and means, of their effective adaptations; of control and regulation of conduct in view of results.
Such considerations show that we cannot attribute the conflict of duty and inclination simply to the existence of appetites and unreflective impulses, as if these were in and of themselves opposed to regulation by any principle.
The moral, which was so largely unreflective that it could be embodied in every custom and observance, became more personal and subjective.
Without stress and strain, without struggle, it just displaces the object which unreflectiveimpulse had suggested.
While the possession of such an immediate, unreflective responsiveness to elements of good and bad must be the mainstay of moral wisdom, the character which lies back of these intuitive apprehensions must be thoughtful and serious-minded.
Unreflective minds possess thoughts only as a jug does water, by containing them.
In combating the notion that Japan is a nation of unreflective imitators, I have given numerous examples of originality.
The measure of progress is not the degree of racial unification, of political centralization, or of unreflective happiness, but rather the degree and the extent of individual personality.
The common beliefs of the unreflective and uninitiated masses in the ultimate rationality and morality of the universe were felt to have no foundation either in religion or philosophy and were accordingly pronounced mere illusions.
Even those who live in unreflective satisfaction with the fruits of the moment would find these moments less satisfactory were they not set in a background of reasonably fair promise.
To cultivate unhindered, unreflective external activity is to foster enslavement, for it leaves the person at the mercy of appetite, sense, and circumstance.
Memory not as high as unreflective identification, iv.
Unreflective identification not as high as memory, iv.
Hence in the ordinary thought of unreflective persons the duties imposed by social opinion are often undistinguished from moral duties: and indeed this indistinctness is almost inherent in the common meaning of many terms.
It is often said to be so: and perhaps we may say that it seems so to unreflective common sense.
Beyond this point, in estimating his ideals and his value, he sometimes seems not to wish to go, either because he is unreflective or because he is modest.
Only the unreflective can regard the utilitarian as having a monopoly of the difficulties which face the moralist.
The most familiar things take on an unfamiliar aspect, and questions are raised which it strikes the unreflective man as highly absurd even to propose.
Or shall we urge them to close their eyes to the light, and to go back again to the old unreflective life?
The deficiencies of the ethics of the unreflective have already been touched upon in Chapter XVIII.
An unreflective adherence to tradition no longer satisfies such persons.
The vague realism of the plain man may be called Naïve or Unreflective Realism.
The deliverances of unreflective common sense are vague in the extreme; and though it may seem to assure us that there is a world of things non-mental, its account of that world is confused and incoherent.
Apparently insignificant in its beginnings, it must still for a while seem insignificant to the man who follows with an unreflective eye the course of the current.
It is, of course, natural for the unreflective man to be unreflective, but, on the other hand, it is also natural for the reflective man to be reflective.
This is not a prohibition district, and if the happy, unreflective bird chooses to partake even to excess of the free offering of Nature, the quintessence of the flowers of the tree distilled by sunshine, why should not he?
What instinct guided the frail, unreflective creatures across miles of ocean to the Islands of the Blest among butterflies.
The instruments of its operation are forged from the processes of unreflective conduct by such modification and adaptation as is required to enable them to accomplish this end.
But its central point would be that these other acts with which the act of knowing must have continuity are just the operations of our unreflective conduct.
Logical conduct is, then, conduct which aims to remove ambiguity and inhibition in unreflective conduct.
Familiarity leads to control, control to contempt, and for the unreflective mind, personality is not, as for the sophisticated, an attribute of the contemptible.
During the period of unconscious andunreflective theism, the sentiment of the Divine was one of objective nearness and personal intimacy.
There was first a period of spontaneous and unreflective Theism, in which man felt the consciousness of God, but could not or did not attempt a rational explanation of his instinctive faith.
The moral is, as usual, that the findings of reflection must not be read back into the former unreflective experience.
Dewey makes 'knowing' the servant of 'direct experience' by giving it the function of reconstructing the habits of the organism, in order that unreflective experience may be maintained with a minimum of effort.
Doubtless reality is, in some degree, what it is in unreflective moments; but it is frequently something more, as man learns to his sorrow.
And if, as was suggested, the scientific consciousness is only the specially developed consciousness of ordinary life, then we have gained also a new confidence even in the unreflective paradoxical consciousness of everyday life.
And there the most unreflective among us feels a sudden awe and wonder at the momentary vision of the profound antiquity of this land in which we live, and for a few moments all desires and aims seem futile in face of this immemorial past.
