| Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1924 - 286 páginas
...every train of thought, however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along towards its end ... All the complex intellectual apparatus of the most...developed mind is but a means towards these ends." In these impulses " we are confronted with the central mystery of life and will " (p. 44). There is... | |
| James Mark Baldwin, James McKeen Cattell, Howard Crosby Warren, John Broadus Watson, Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Carroll Cornelius Pratt, Theodore Mead Newcomb - 1920 - 516 páginas
...Ibid., p. 12 ff. »'Soc. Psychol.,' p. 29. 8 Conative tendency — cf. Brit. J. of Psychol., p. 261 ff. "The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all...power by which all mental activities are sustained." 'Soc. Psychol.,' p. 44. 4 "I hold to the reality of teleological determination of human and animal... | |
| Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1912 - 328 páginas
...every train of thought ... is borne along towards its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive impulses determine the...power by which all mental activities are sustained. . . . These impulses are the mental forces that maintain and shape all the life of individuals and... | |
| Solomon Herbert - 1913 - 436 páginas
...ancestry. Indeed, according to this view, " the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity," " and all the complex intellectual apparatus of the most highly developed mind is but the instrument by which these [instinctive] impulses seek their satisfactions." And this opinion stands... | |
| Graham Wallas - 1914 - 402 páginas
...end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive impulses determine the end of all activities, and supply the driving power by...towards these ends', is but the instrument by which those impulses seek their satisfactions,- while pleasure and pain do but serve to guide them in their... | |
| Graham Wallas - 1914 - 426 páginas
...end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive impulses determine the end of all activities, and supply the driving power by...towards these ends, is but the instrument by which those impulses seek their satisfactions, while pleasure and pain do but serve to guide them in their... | |
| Morton Prince - 1914 - 584 páginas
...passionless it may seem, is borne along toward its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained. The instinctive impulses determine the...apparatus of the most highly developed mind is but a means toward these ends, is but the instrument by which these impulses seek their satisfactions, while pleasure... | |
| Alexander Faulkner Shand - 1920 - 628 páginas
...This supremely important fact Dr. McDougall appears to deny. " The instinctive impulses," he writes, " determine the ends of all activities, and supply the...mental activities are sustained ; and all the complex apparatus of the most highly developed mind is but a means towards these ends. . . ."2 With every new... | |
| 1916 - 770 páginas
...psychology, that directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity . . . and all the complex intellectual apparatus of the most highly developed mind is ... but the instrument by which [the instinctive] impulses seek their satisfaction.1 An instinct is defined... | |
| 1916 - 788 páginas
...psychology, that directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity . . . and all the complex intellectual apparatus of the most highly developed mind is ... but the instrument by which [the instinctive] impulses seek their satisfaction.1 An instinct is defined... | |
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