Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for Academies and High Schools

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... Time but the impression stronger makes ; As streams their channels deeper wear . " § 150. Of the secondary law of co - existent emotion . A third secondary law is CO - EXISTENT EMOTION . - It may be stated in other words as follows ...

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CHAPTER V	17

Of the sense and sensations of smell	22

THE SENSE OF TOUCH	23

Of the sense of touch in general and its sensations	26

Idea of externality suggested in connexion with the touch	27

Of the primary and secondary qualities of matter	28

On the sensations of heat and cold	29

CHAPTER VI	30

Of the sophism of estimating actions and character from the cir cumstances of success merely	216

Of adherence to our opinions	217

Effects on the mind of debating for victory instead of truth	218

CHAPTER XIII	219

DISORDERED INTELLECTUAL ACTION 1 EXCITED CONCEPTIONS OR APPARITIONS 216 Disordered intellectual action as connected with t...	231

Of excited conceptions and of apparitions in general 218 Of the less permanent excited conceptions of sight 219 Of the less permament excited conce...	232

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Of the organ of sight and the uses or benefits of that sense	33

Statement of the mode or process in visual perception	34

Of the original and acquired perceptions of sight	35

The idea of extension not originally from sight	36

Of the knowledge of the figure of bodies by the sight	37

Illustration of the subject from the blind	38

Measurements of magnitude by the	39

Of the sensations of hardness and softness	42

Of certain indefinite feelings sometimes ascribed to the touch	44

Relation between the sensation and what is outwardly signified	45

CHAPTER VI	46

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Of objects seen in a mist 41 Of the sun and moon when seen in the horizon	53

Of the estimation of distances by sight	54

Signs by means of which we estimate distance by sight	55

Estimation of distance when unaided by intermediate objects	56

Of objects seen on the ocean	57

CHAPTER VII	58

Meaning and characteristics of conceptions	59

Of conceptions of objects of sight	60

Of the influence of habit on our conceptions	61

Influence of habit on conceptions of sight	62

Of the subserviency of our conceptions to description	63

Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief	64

Conceptions which are joined with perceptions	65

Conceptions as connected with fictitious representations	66

Sensations may possess a relative as well as positive increase	68

Of habits as modified by particular callings and arts	69

The law of habit considered in reference to the perception of	70

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OF ATTENTION	101

The beginning of knowledge is in the senses	104

x	107

Of our estimate of time in dreaming	113

CHAPTER I	119

Import of suggestion and its application in Reid and Stewart	123

110	126

Of time and its measurements and of eternity	129

Of other elements of knowledge developed in suggestion	135

Of the general laws of association	141

DEMONSTRATIVE REASONING	143

v1 Of ideas of possession	147

Of the influence of lapse of time	148

Secondary law of repetition or habit	149

Of the secondary law of coexistent emotion	150

Original difference in the mental constitution	151

The foregoing as applicable to the sensibilities 15	152

CHAPTER VII	159

Instance illustrative of the preceding statements	162

Marks of a good memory	163

Directions or rules for the improvement of the memory	164

Further directions for the improvement of the memory	165

Of observance of the truth in connexion with memory CHAPTER VIII	166

Of memory as a ground or law of belief	167

Of differences in the strength of memory	168

Of circumstantial memory or that species of memory which is based on the relations of contiguity in time and place	169

Illustrations of specific or circumstantial memory	170

Of philosophic memory or that species of memory which is based on other relations than those of contiguity	171

Illustrations of philosophic memory	172

Of that species of memory called intentional recollection	173

Nature of intentional recollection	174

C	178

160 161 171 172 173 174 ib	181

Mental action quickened by influence on the physical system	183

Other instances of quickened mental action and of a restoration of thoughts 170 Effect on the memory of a severe attack of fever	184

Approval and illustrations of these views from Coleridge	185

Use of definitions and axioms in demonstrative reasoning	186

Application of the principles of this chapter to education	187

Demonstrations do not admit of different degrees of belief	188

Connexion of this doctrine with the final judgment and a future life	189

CHAPTER IX	190

Definition of reasoning and of propositions	191

Process of the mind in all cases of reasoning	192

Illustration of the preceding statement	193

Grounds of the selection of propositions	194

Reasoning implies the existence of antecedent or assumed propo sitions 169 170 177 179	195

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Characteristics of emotions of beauty	252

Instance of the above form of insanity of reasoning	254

Original or intrinsic beauty The circle	259

INTRODUCTION	261

Illustrations of the original beauty of sounds	265

PART I	267

Of motion as an element of beauty	291

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EMOTIONS OF SUBLIMITY	300

Indications of power accompanied by emotions of the sublime	306

Of wit when employed in aggrandizing objects	312

Section	314

302	321

The principles based upon desire susceptible of a twofold	327

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CHAPTER III	333

Of the natural desire of esteem	344

Of the desire of esteem as a rule of conduct	345

Of the desire of possession	346

Of the moral character of the possessory principle	347

Of perversions of the possessory desire	348

Of the desire of power	349

Of the moral character of the desire of power	350

Propensity of selflove or the desire of happiness	351

Of selfishness as distinguished from selflove	352

Reference to the opinions of philosophical writers	353

The principle of sociality original in the human mind	354

Evidence of the existence of this principle of sociality	355

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Relation of the social principle to civil society	357

CHAPTER V	358

Of the complex nature of the affections	359

Of resentment or anger	360

Illustrations of instinctive resentment 346 Uses and moral character of instinctive resentment	361

Of voluntary in distinction from instinctive resentment	362

Tendency of anger to excess and the natural checks to	363

Other reasons for checking and subduing the angry passions	365

Modifications of resentment 351 Modifications of resentment 352 Modifications of resentment 353 Modifications of resentment 354 Nature of the pa...	366

Envy	367

Jealousy	368

Revenge	369

The filial affection original or implanted 361 Illustrations of the filial affection CHAPTER VI	371

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Of the nature of the fraternal affection	379

On the utility of the domestic affections	380

Of the moral character of the domestic affections and of the be nevolent affections generally	381

Of the moral character of the voluntary exercises of the benevo lent affections	382

Of the connexion between benevolence and rectitude	383

Of humanity or the love of the human race	384

Further proofs in support of the doctrine of an innate humanity or love for the human race	386

Proofs of a humane or philanthropic principle from the existence of benevolent institutions	387

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Feelings of obligation simple and not susceptible of definition	403

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Of their authoritative and enforcing nature	428

The nature of conscience considered as a uniform principle of	434

Influence of early associations on moral judgments	440

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Of the importance in a moral point of view of adopting correct	446

Disordered action of the principle of selfpreservation	454

Disordered and alienated action of the possessory principle	455

Disordered action of imitativeness or the principle of imitation	456

Disordered action of the principle of sociality	457

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Of the disordered action of the desire of esteem	459

Disordered action of the desire of power 457 459	460

CHAPTER III	461

Familiar instances of sympathetic imitation	462

Instances of sympathetic imitation at the poorhouse of Harlem	463

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CHAPTER IV	465

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Tittel	Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for Academies and High Schools
Forfatter	Thomas Cogswell Upham
Utgiver	Harper & brothers, 1842
Original fra	Harvard University
Digitalisert	19. mar 2008
Lengde	480 sider

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