Theories of Social Progress: A Critical Study of the Attempts to Formulate the Conditions of Human AdvanceMacmillan, 1918 - 579 páginas |
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... problem where we leave it . Speculation is not to be damned because phi- losophers have made mistakes . I am perfectly willing to indulge in speculation but must not stamp and issue it as objective truth . When I say , for example ...
... problem where we leave it . Speculation is not to be damned because phi- losophers have made mistakes . I am perfectly willing to indulge in speculation but must not stamp and issue it as objective truth . When I say , for example ...
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... problem , then , is to examine how human . nature is made and of what it is made , in order to determine whether it may be adapted to the demands of projected new types of political and economic organization . We assume , of course , in ...
... problem , then , is to examine how human . nature is made and of what it is made , in order to determine whether it may be adapted to the demands of projected new types of political and economic organization . We assume , of course , in ...
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... problem of sociology and only incidentally of psychology . That it is of tremen- dous practical interest will appear ... problems as the moral imbecile , the criminal , the apartment house , the ownership of houses of prostitution , the ...
... problem of sociology and only incidentally of psychology . That it is of tremen- dous practical interest will appear ... problems as the moral imbecile , the criminal , the apartment house , the ownership of houses of prostitution , the ...
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... problems psychological and sociological seem to demand such a concept for their solution . For example , can evolution account for the separation by the self of itself from its sensations ? In other words , can the self have evolved out ...
... problems psychological and sociological seem to demand such a concept for their solution . For example , can evolution account for the separation by the self of itself from its sensations ? In other words , can the self have evolved out ...
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... problem of immortality and whether there could be a coherent person , mind , self , without a body . We must confess humbly that we do not know ; though it is possible that mind and body are not so absolutely parallel as we are in the ...
... problem of immortality and whether there could be a coherent person , mind , self , without a body . We must confess humbly that we do not know ; though it is possible that mind and body are not so absolutely parallel as we are in the ...
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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.