The Emotions and the Will

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Appleton, 1888 - 604 páginas
 

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The Physical Side of Pleasure
11
The Physical Side of Pain
12
Feeling as Indifference or Neutral Excitement
13
Volitional Characters of Feeling 14 Feelings tested by conduct
14
Persistence of Feelings recurrence in idea
15
The Emotions affect the judgment of true and false
21
Expression
27
Fixing a standard from known individuals
33
ExamplesReflex Actions Locomotion
54
Organic Sensations the Parental Instinct
60
THE EMOTIONS AND THEIR CLASSIFICATION
64
The Emotions are derived or compound feelings
70
CONTENTS xX1 PAGE
74
Relativity recognized in current maxims but mis
83
Acting for others not always a farseeing Selfishness
111
The appearances to be accounted for
112
First condition of Sympathyexperience of Feelings ib 5 Next experience of the Signs
113
Association of Feelings with Signs
115
Susceptibility to the impressions of the senses generally ib 8 Relation to the Person sympathized with
116
Counteractives of Sympathy
117
Effect of sympathy upon the recipient
118
Fellowfeeling supposes a regard to our own happiness
119
What is the source of our sympathetic impulses ?
120
Hypothesis of the primitive gregarious situation of animals
121
Sympathy compatible with dislike
122
Breadth of sympathieshow accounted for
123
CHAPTER VII
124
Love rests upon the pleasure of the embrace
126
CHARACTERS OF THE EMOTION 5 OBJECTS or inspiring causes
127
Great Pleasures Pains Massive Pleasures
128
Tears ib 8 Sobbing
129
Connection with Weakness
130
SPECIES OF TENDER EMOTION The Interests of Sociability at large 10 The gregarious position under an equal relationship Fraternity
131
The Parental Feeling
139
Emotional Gratitude
145
Fear presupposes certain mental conditions
151
Depression effects on the Will
157
Superstition
164
observations
169
CHAPTER IX
172
CHAPTER X
192
Wide scope of the pleasure of Power in Idea
198
Arts of Politesse
211
Pains of Contradiction The regard to Truth
218
Uncertainty Mystery
222
The Object attitude intensified in pursuit
223
Sport Industry search for Knowledge ib 7 Our Sociable pleasures extended by the interest of pursuit
224
CHAPTER XIV
225
The Eye and the Ear the æsthetic senses
226
The Muscular and Sensual feelings are æsthetic in idea ib 4 Problem of the Beautiful
227
Designations of the æsthetic qualities
228
Resumption of Laws applicable to æsthetic pleasures ib 7 Pleasures of Light and of Hearing
229
Cooperation of the Intellect
230
Emotions entering into Art
231
Intellectual feeling of Unity Likeness in Diversity
232
Emotions of Science are under certain disqualifications ib 12 Combinations of Sound Music The primary musical sensations
233
Unity in Varietymusical form
234
Human Power the literal sublime
248
Sublime of Support
249
Sublime of Space ib 31 Greatness of Time
250
Mineral and Vegetable Kingdoms Surface of the globe
251
The Animal Kingdomits beauties and deformities
252
The Human Form 253
253
Artistic operation of Idealising
254
The Imitative Fine Arts Conditions of artistic imita tion
255
Causes of Laughter Incongruity not necessarily ludicrous
256
The Ludicrous as dependent on Degradation Theory of Hobbes
258
The Comic a rebound from the Serious
259
CHAPTER XV
264
Variety of Moral Theories
265
The Moral Sense
268
Qualified form of the doctrineWhewell ib 7 There can be no abstract Moral Standard
270
Unanimity in imposing restraints on grounds of Senti ment Great differences in the things imposed
272
Adam Smiths theory of Sympathy
273
The Principle of Utility Necessary qualifications in the Statement of Utility
275
The usual objections to Utility are sentimental
277
The existing rules combine Utility and Sentiment
279
Examples of Sentiment converted into moral rules
280
Every feeling has a course of rise and decay
285
The selfformed or Independent Conscience
288
THE WILL
296
CHAPTER I
303
Natural Vigour Excitement Mental Stimulants
310
CHAPTER II
321
Mastication
328
Avoiding painful and courting pleasurable Sounds
334
CHAPTER III
340
Imitation of Movements at sight
348
Operation of Pleasure and Pain in idea
354
The operation of the Will limited to muscles
359
Control of feeling tests power of Will
366
Control of the intellectual trains a test of volitional
374
CHAPTER V
383
CHAPTER VII
408
Recording impressions at the end
414
CHAPTER IX
440
Domestication of the Animal Tribes
455
Promptings supplied from without
461
Prohibition from without the first source of the Moral
467
Adjuncts and aids to Conscience
473
CHAPTER XI
479
Freewill cannot be stated in definite language
493
Belief as varying in Degree Tests of its force
507
Subjectivity
545
The common groundwork of Emotion and of Intellect 570
549
Excitement attending Pain 391
553
Sense of Agreement
555
Perception more intellectual than Sensation
561
What is it to be cognizant of a thing?
567
Literary genius and language as means of selection
573
The Ontological problem of the Reality of an Inde
583
A On the most general physical conditions of Consciousness
589
B Classifications of the Emotions Herbert Spencer Reid
601

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