Theories of Social Progress: A Critical Study of the Attempts to Formulate the Conditions of Human AdvanceMacmillan, 1918 - 579 páginas |
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... CONCEPT AND CRITERIA OF PROGRESS VI THE CONCEPT OF PROGRESS 83 VII THE CRITERIA OF PROGRESS 113 VIII PART III . THE PROPHETS OF PROGRESS INTRODUCTORY NOTE ON INTERPRETATIONS OF PROGRESS • 151 ( a ) Materialistic IX GEOGRAPHIC ...
... CONCEPT AND CRITERIA OF PROGRESS VI THE CONCEPT OF PROGRESS 83 VII THE CRITERIA OF PROGRESS 113 VIII PART III . THE PROPHETS OF PROGRESS INTRODUCTORY NOTE ON INTERPRETATIONS OF PROGRESS • 151 ( a ) Materialistic IX GEOGRAPHIC ...
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... concept of human nature is flung at us or piled up into a barricade to obstruct essen- tial reforms , where reform means the loss of some oppor- tunity to exploit , the foregoing of some personal advantage , and the socializing of ...
... concept of human nature is flung at us or piled up into a barricade to obstruct essen- tial reforms , where reform means the loss of some oppor- tunity to exploit , the foregoing of some personal advantage , and the socializing of ...
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... concept of self " as its really significant element . This is the common center for the self - regarding or the altruistic motives and sentiments . It is the core of human life . What makes a man , or what determines his conduct , if it ...
... concept of self " as its really significant element . This is the common center for the self - regarding or the altruistic motives and sentiments . It is the core of human life . What makes a man , or what determines his conduct , if it ...
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... concept of the human self . And his philosophy will be a con- structive optimism that includes a liberal view of human nature , precisely because human nature and the self are trustworthy when given proper surroundings . " Human nature ...
... concept of the human self . And his philosophy will be a con- structive optimism that includes a liberal view of human nature , precisely because human nature and the self are trustworthy when given proper surroundings . " Human nature ...
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... concept of the " self . " Three main lines of evidence will be tapped . First , ethnography furnishes much illuminating material to demonstrate the savage's hazy and mystical sense of personality and especially of its subordination to ...
... concept of the " self . " Three main lines of evidence will be tapped . First , ethnography furnishes much illuminating material to demonstrate the savage's hazy and mystical sense of personality and especially of its subordination to ...
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activity animal become belief century chap CHAPTER character child civilization classes climate concept conscious conservatism coöperation criticism culture definite dominant economic Edvard Westermarck elements environment ethical eugenics eugenists evidence experience fact factors feeling force function genius Hegel Hence heredity human nature human progress ideals ideas imagination increasing individual industrial Industrial Revolution instinct institutions intellectual intelligence interests invention J. S. Mill Jour Karl Pearson labor less man's means ment mental merely mind modern Montesquieu moral motive natural selection nomic organization perhaps personality philosophy physical Plato political population possible Preface to Politics primitive principle problem production Professor psychology public opinion race racial religion religious savage scientific sense sentiments sexual selection social evolution social progress society Sociology spirit struggle theory things thought tion true truth unity wealth whole
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Página 337 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are...
Página 114 - CIVILIZATION, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 408 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Página 183 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
Página 519 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 359 - With respect to them it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing of the gap between them, but it has a - /perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable-: / the societies we are speaking of are progressive,. \ The greater or less happiness of a people depends v- > on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
Página 182 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states.
Página 499 - For, don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Página 202 - The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life, and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure...
Página 501 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.