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action activities actual Adam Smith already alter animal antithe antithesis arise assimilation attitude becomes biological called Chap child co-operation comes consciousness desire distinction dualism earlier egoistic ejective elements emotion ence environment epoch ethical sense evidence evolution experience fact feeling function further genius give grows habit hedonic Hegel human ideal imitation impulse individual individual's influence instinctive intel intellectual intelligence invention JAMES MARK BALDWIN Josiah Royce kind learning Lloyd Morgan matter means ment Mental Development mind moral movement natural selection object organic reactions outcome particular personal growth personal sanction physical heredity point of view present principle psychological question reactions reason reference reflective religious represents Sect seen selective thinking selfish sentiment side social environment social heredity social organization social progress social sanctions society socius sort sphere stage sympathy tendency theory things thought tion tive true variations vidual
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Page 569 - Therefore, my success as a man of science, whatever this may have amounted to, has been determined, as far as I can judge, by complex and diversified mental qualities and conditions. Of these, the most important have been — the love of science — unbounded patience in long reflecting over any subject — industry in observing and collecting facts — and a fair share of invention as well as of common-sense. With such moderate abilities as I possess, it is truly surprising that I should have influenced...
Page 24 - The development of the child's personality could not go on at all without the constant modification of his sense of himself by suggestions from others. So he himself, at every stage, is really in part some one else, even in his own thought of himself
Page 50 - God, knows what and how still. In so far as I have learned from him, I also know; and this I expect you, my brother, my friend, my alter, to know too, for our common life together. And the sense of this my self of conformity to what he teaches and would have me do — this is, once for all, my conscience.
Page 514 - ... just as we can also trace the elements of personal suggestion, in the case of the analogous dialectic of the individual's growth. The new thought is ' projective ' to society as long as it exists in the individual's mind only; it becomes ' subjective ' to society when society has generalized it and embodied it in some one of the institutions which are a part of her intimate organization ; and then finally society makes it ' ejective ' by requiring, by all her pedagogical, civil, and other sanctions,...
Page 8 - ... series. But it is only when a peculiar experience arises which we call effort that there comes that great line of cleavage in his experience which indicates the rise of volition, and which separates off the series now first really subjective. What has formerly been 'projective
Page 150 - It is not that the art impulse is exhausted in self-exhibition . . . the social judgment which a work of art has to sustain finds its correlative impulse in the self-exhibition of the producer. Only thus can his own judgment be instructed. The reaction of this social recognition upon the producer is not alone the fountain of his stimulus and the test of his success ; it is also the very source of his test of values.
Page 507 - ... exercise of the imitative function. He reaches his subjective understanding of the social copy by imitation, and then he confirms his interpretations by another imitative act by which he ejectively reads his self-thought into the persons of others.
Page 489 - ... essence of Baldwin's doctrine of the social process may be briefly summarized in the following manner. The raw material of society and socialization is thoughts : — It is only thoughts or knowledges which are imitable in the fruitful way required by a theory of progressive social organization. . . It is only in the form of thoughts, conceptions, or inventions that new material, new 'copies for imitation...