In Search of the Soul and the Mechanism of Thought, Emotion, and Conduct, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from In Search of the Soul and the Mechanism of Thought, Emotion, and Conduct, Vol. 2 of 2 Having concluded the history of philosophy and science in Vol. I., the reader will now be prepared for the consideration of those problems which form the real subject-matter of this work. We propose to deal with them, in succession, as follows: (1) The mental organisation of man; (2) The physical structure which serves for the manifestation of his intellectual capacities, emotional tendencies, and instinctive impulses; and (3) The evidence for the existence of higher capacities in man which apparently are spiritual; that is to say, for which, up to the present, no explanation has been found. The Science of Character and Conduct We have seen that, notwithstanding some twenty-five centuries of philosophic speculation and more than two centuries of scientific research, we are still in ignorance of the nature of mind, of the varieties of mental activities, and the laws which govern them. One of the reasons for this lack of progress is that most psychologists until quite recently concerned themselves almost exclusively with consciousness, and the ideas and understanding of man, studying "thought" for its own sake, whereas the science of mind also embraces strivings and desires, feelings and action, i.e., character and conduct. The great problem of psychology throughout the ages has been: "Have we ideas independent of experience?" But far more important is the question, so long ignored: "Have we desires independent of experience?" The psychologist studied himself, by a method of introspection and self-analysis; whereas the true mental philosopher studies his fellow-men and uses his powers of observation. The psychologist looked around his own mind-chamber, whereas the practical philosopher looks out upon the theatre of human life wherein all human beings are the actors. Each psychologist wrote long and most abstruse disquisitions upon the patent and latent errors of his eminent predecessors, besides giving the world Speculations of his own; but it is a lamentable testimony to the insufficiency of the method of psychology that, notwithstanding the number of its distinguished followers, the greatest thinkers that the world ever possessed, they had to hand over to poets, dramatists, and romance-writers the description of the fundamental facts of human nature and motives of conduct, and the problems that arise from them. Success in life depends largely on knowledge of the character of one´s fellow-men; but character cannot be studied by introspection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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