Acerca de este libro
Mi biblioteca
Libros en Google Play
I. The All-Inclusive Paradox of Ends and Means.
II. The Paradoxes of the Different Spheres of Life
1. Paradoxes in the Physical Life .
2. Paradoxes in the Intellectual Life
3. Paradoxes in the Moral Life.
4. Paradoxes in the Religious Life
PAGE
22
31
32
5. Choosing One's Lifework and Abiding Character-
The Hierarchy of Mes"
6. The Fundamental Paradox of Life. Docility and
Initiative
CHAPTER III
THE EMPHASIS OF PSYCHOLOGY ON CONDITIONS
I. The Lessons of Natural Science
.
II. The Significance of Common Work and Duties
III. No Magical Inheritance
IV. No Conditions in General
I. Ascetic Treatment of Bodily Conditions
II. Not a Materialistic Position
CHAPTER V
THE UNITY OF MIND AND BODY - THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EVI-
DENCE.
I. The Law of Diffusion
II. Psychical Effects of Bodily Training
III. The Close Connection of the Will and Muscular
57
I. The Body Influences the Mind
1. The Need of Well-Oxygenated Blood
2. The Need of Surplus Nervous Energy. Effects of
Fatigue.
64
67
(1) The Effects of Fatigue on Attention and Self-
Control
(2) Direct Effect of Fatigue on Nerve Conditions
(3) The Consequent Effects of Fatigue on All
Perceptions and Activities
(4) The Need of Physical Training
II. The Influence of Mind on Body .
1. Power of Self-Control Even in the Insane
71
77
2. The Will in Determining Conditions of Health
(1) In Achieving Rest.
(3) In Meeting the Special Conditions of Surplus
III. Mutual Influence of Body and Mind - Habits
1. The Significance of Habit for Mental Life
2. Opportunities for Will Training in Formation of
Habits in Education
3. James' Maxims on Habit
(1) Launch Yourself with Decided Initiative
(2) Allow no Exceptions.
(3) Seize the First Opportunity to Act (4) Gratuitous Exercise of Effort
81
82
83
85
86
888
IV. The True Place of Asceticism.
1. The Body not Evil per se.
2. Asceticism, As Negative, No Full Goal of Life
3. Not Two Kinds of Christianity
4. The True Asceticism
CHAPTER VII
THE UNITY OF THE MIND-THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
I. Interdependence of All Intellectual Functions
II. Interdependence of Intellect, Feeling, and Will
III. Trend Toward the Denial of Abstract Elements in the
Mind . . .
IV. The Mind's Constant Search for Unity.
103
106
108
1. Intellectual Helps . .
(1) A Wide Circle of Permanent Interests
(2) Knowledge of Oneself
(3) Discernment of What Moral Progress Is.
(4) Particularly, Clearness and Definiteness in
Memory, Imagination, and Thinking
2. Intellectual Hindrances
(1) Premature Multiplication of Many Points of
(2) "Over-sophistication"
(3) Making Insights Take the Place of Doing.
(4) Intellectual Vagueness
(5) Dangers in Habits of Study
II. Emotional Conditions
1. The Stimulating Effect of Joyful Emotions
2. The Danger of Strained and Sham Emotions
3. The Influence of Moods on Willing
4. The Danger of Passive Emotion.
5. The Need of Power to Withstand Strong Emotion,
142
THE CENTRAL IMPORTANCE OF WILL
AND ACTION
CHAPTER IX
THE CENTRAL IMPORTANCE OF WILL AND ACTION-THE PSY-
CHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
I. The Suggestion of Evolution.
II. Impulse to Action, Fundamental
III. The Natural Terminus of Every Experience is Action
1. The Body Organized for Action.
(1) The Circulation of the Blood.
(2) The Nervous System.
(3) The Muscular System
(4) In the Human Body as a Whole
2. The Mind Organized for Action.
145
146
IV. For the Very Sake of Thought and Feeling, One Must
VI. The Preeminent Influence of Practical Interests in All
(2) Philosophy Depends on Practical Considera-
tions
(3) Convictions Must be Wrought out in Action. 165
THE CENTRAL IMPORTANCE OF WILL AND ACTION - SUGGES-
TIONS FOR LIVING
I. The Enormous Place of Will and Action in Life
II. The Fundamental Character of Self-Control.
1. Self-Control Fundamental to a Moral and Reli-
gious Character
180
2. Self-Control Fundamental to Happiness
3. Self-Control Fundamental to Influence
4. Self-Control Positive, not Negative . .
FAGI
182
185
186
(1) Object Must Continually Change for Us. 191
(2) The Possession of a Large Circle of Interests. 191
(3) Persistent Staying in the Presence of the Best .
III. Objectivity a Prime Condition of Character, and Happi-
ness, and Influence
IV. Work a Chief Means to Character, and Happiness, and
Influence
192
198
THE CONCRETENESS OF THE REAL-THE
INTER-RELATEDNESS OF ALL
CHAPTER XI
THE CONCRETENESS OF THE REAL THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EVI-
--
DENCE, CONFIRMED BY THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT
I. The General Trend in Psychology Toward Recogni-
tion of this Concreteness
210
II. The Mind Made for Relations.
III. One Reason for the Place and Power of Art and
Literature.
IV. The Influence of the Idea of the Organism in the His-
tory of Thought.
213
214
1. The Idea of the Organism Before Hegel
2. The Idea of the Organism in Hegel
3. The Idea of the Organism Since Hegel
V. A New Protest Constantly Needed in the Interest of the