Articoli correlati a The General Problems of Psychology (Volume 1)
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI THE DATA OF PSYCHOLOGY THE immediate data of consciousness, it has already been pointed out, afford materials for two wholly different reactions. It is essential that the distinction between these characteristic modes of treating the content of intuition should be held in mind, if a proper conception of the data of psychology is to be reached. For, of these two attitudes, it is the non-psychological which we assume with the greater facility, because it represents the immediate reaction of the naive self upon its object. The moment, therefore, that we fail to hold fast to the technical aims of psychology, its conceptual viewpoint lapses, and the content of experience is once more treated in terms of its original and immediate values. In its primary significance, the objective world is a system of materials--plastic yet resistant--through which the aims of the practical and moral will are realized. Especially in its human and social aspect is the objective world thus conceived. The existence of our fellow-men is the habitual postulate of our own self-expression, which finds in them the sources of its inspiration, the materials for its development, and the ideal prototypes of its constructive activities. This reaction upon experience is not confined to moments of uncritical self-seeking or dumb appreciation, but appears also in the systematic treatment of its materials under definite ideal criteria. In its immediate bearing upon the problems of psychology, this non-scientific viewpoint represents an interest in the individual mind and its history, as a significant system of attitudes. The principle appears under a variety of aspects. Biographical study, for example, is an attempt to interpret and reconstruct the form of experience in some particular human li...
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