Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 1914, Vol. 53 I call the articles unhistorical because they give no hint that any similar revolt against an established psychology had taken place earlier in psychological history. Yet one need go no farther back than Comte to find a parallel. Comte's rejection of introspection has Often been referred to: let me now quote another passage in which he sums up his attack upon ideology. It is evident, first, ...
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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 1914, Vol. 53 I call the articles unhistorical because they give no hint that any similar revolt against an established psychology had taken place earlier in psychological history. Yet one need go no farther back than Comte to find a parallel. Comte's rejection of introspection has Often been referred to: let me now quote another passage in which he sums up his attack upon ideology. It is evident, first, that no function can be studied but with relation to the organ that fulfils it or to the phenomena of its fulfilment; and, in the second place, that the affective functions, and yet more the intellectual, exhibit in respect of their fulfilment the peculiar characteristic that they cannot be directly Observed during the actual course Of this fulfilment, but only in its more or less immediate and more or less permanent results. There are then only two different ways of studying scientifically such an order of functions: we must either determine, with all attainable precision, the various organic conditions on which they depend, - and this is the chief Object Of phreno logical physiology; or we must Observe the consequence for conduct of intel lectual and moral acts, - and this belongs rather to natural history these two inseparable aspects of one and the same subject being, of course, always so conceived that each may throw light on the other. Thus regarded, this great study is seen to be inseparably connected on the one hand with the whole of natural philosophy, and especially with the fundamental doc trines Of biology; and, on the other hand, with the whole of scientific history, of the animals as well as of man, and even of humanity. But when, by the pretended method of psychology, we discard absolutely from our subject matter the consideration both of the agent and Of the act [that is, Of the organ of function and of the result of its exercise], what more is there left to occupy the mind than an unintelligible logomachy, in which merely nominal entities are everywhere substituted for scientific phenomena The most dificult study of all is thus placed at once in a state of complete isolation, without any possible point Of support in the simpler and more perfect sci chees, over which it is proposed, on the contrary, to give it sovereign rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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