The Emotions and the Will

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Longmans, Green, 1865 - 616 頁

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There can be neither consciousness nor voluntary power without the processes of physical renovation and decay 435
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When we say Mind is a source of power we must
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Intellectual Characters of Feeling
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Benevolence between equals
19
Examples of operation of the feelings on Belief
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Retentiveness stimulated by feeling distinct from
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the pleasure of retaliation
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Pleasure and Pain not a distinction to found classes upon
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Species of Novelty
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Freedom the deliverance from restraint Circum
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Influence of Strangeness on Animals and on Children
58
Instrumentality of Terror in Government and Education
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PHYSICAL SIDE The organs involved are the Lachrymal
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Characteristics of selfcomplacent sentiment generally
102
Arts of Politesse
110
MENTAL SIDE Characters of the pleasure
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Acute shocks most
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Sudden resentment
135
CHAPTER X
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Uncertainty or Chance heightens the interest
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State office wealth leadership of a party adviser
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Position of the spectator of a chase
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Groundwork of the aptitudes of sympathy and imita
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TABLE OF CONTENTS xix
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Fellowfeeling in great part the echoing of pain or plea
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Circumstances that promote imitation
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Purely ideal subsistence of states of feeling
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Operation of the intellectual forces of Contiguity
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The Religious sentiment an outgoing of the ideal
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Command given by Science
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Problem of the Beautiful
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Simple Emotions touched by the Artist
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Time in music
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Varying Emphasis
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Cadence ib 15 Composition
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Harmonies of Sight Harmony of Colours Light and Shade Lustre
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Straight Outlines
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Curved Outlines
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Pressure and Support
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Appearance of Ease in objects employed in giving sup port
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Symmetry
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Beauty of Movement
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Fitness the Esthetic of Utility
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Order Cleanliness Polish
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The Sublime Objects and emotion
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Sublime of Support The mountain precipice and abyss
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Sublimity of Space Commanding prospects in scenery
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Greatness of Time Relations of Terror to the Sublime
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Natural Objects in general Mineral and Vegetable Kingdoms Surface of the globe
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The Animal Kingdom its beauties and deformities
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The Human form
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Beauties of Movement and Expression
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Beauty and grace in Human Character
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The Ludicrous Causes of Laughter
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Ludicrous Degradation as a mode of Release from constraint The Comic a rebound from the Serious
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There is no such thing as a Universal Conscience
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Principle of Utility
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Examples of Sentiment converted into law and morality
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Development of Conscience in the individual
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Other varieties of conscience
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CHAPTER I
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Necessity of an isolated spontaneity as a prelude
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Question whether emotional movements may offer
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Sucking
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Snuffing sweet Odours and recoiling from the opposite
326
Appetites and their gratification Sex
333
CHAPTER III
339
Imitation of movements at sight
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Form of Desire in protracted operations for ends
439
Endurance ib 5 The stimulus to endurance is the pain of conflict
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Ideal or imaginary action
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Persistence of a feeling in absence a condition of imagi nary gratification
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Examples of ideal activity
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Emotions suited to imaginary gratification
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The memory of pleasure has a sting of pain from the sense of its being below the reality
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Provocatives of desire
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Susceptibility to ideal inflammation
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Desire most effectually stimulated by growing pleasure
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CHAPTER IX
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Control of Sense and Appetite
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Examples The habit of early rising
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The proper initiatives of habits
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Habits of Temperance
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Control of Attention
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Suppression of Instinctive movements
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Lowering or raising of special emotions
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Habit of Courage ib 11 Tender Emotion
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Sentiment of Power Command of the Temper
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Pleasures of Sport and Plotinterest Emotions of Intellect
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Sudden conversions as opposed to the slow course of habit
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Habits modifying the original spontaneity
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Repression of Desire Contentment ib 18 Domestication of the animal tribes
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Habits in opposition to intellectual trains Concen tration of thought
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CHAPTER X
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Promptings supplied from without
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Leisurely meditation an element of prudence
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Characters moulded on the prudential cast ib 5 Forces hostile to prudence
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It is possible to predict the future conduct of an indi vidual from the past
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Duty Selfpromptings
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Prohibition by penalties the first source of the Moral Sentiment The Slavish Conscience
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Elements that concur to form the Citizen Conscience
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The Independent Conscience
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Aids to conscience
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Counterimpulses to duty
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Moral Inability
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Plea of moral inability put forward by an offender
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LIBERTY AND NECESSITY
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There is a real contrariety of opinion as respects
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Self can only mean the sum total of motives
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Assertions that have been put forward under the infal
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In the primitive aspect of Volition belief has no place
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means
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Belief implies some cognisance of the order of nature
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Affirmations may be detached from actions or
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Belief is a source of happiness or misery
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Relationship of Belief to Terror Doubt ib 7 Belief in coming evil
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Joy and Depression as caused by belief
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SOURCES of belief
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Intuitive tendencies
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Belief accompanies action and precedes experience
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Fallacies grounded in instinctive beliefs
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Experience as a source of belief
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Influence of Emotion
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Opposition of Confidence and Fear
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Emotions considered as operating to elevate or depress the mental tone
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Belief in Testimony
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Agency of Desire in producing conviction
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Hope Fear Despondency il
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How can we be said to believe in things beyond the scope of possible action?
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Belief in our own sensations present and past
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Prevalent meanings of the term Consciousness
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General tendency of the several meanings First mental life and its degrees Second the occupa tion of the mind with itself Third Belief
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CONSCIOUSNESS AS FEELING 1 The Passive States 3 Pleasure and Pain Characteristics of Neutral Excite ment
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The feeling of difference precedes the operation of
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Perception means sensation and something more
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APPENDIX
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Meanings of Consciousness Hamilton on the priority
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第 168 頁 - Tis now the very witching time of night When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
第 63 頁 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
第 249 頁 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
第 172 頁 - rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
第 12 頁 - I will omit much usual declamation on the dignity and capacity of our nature; the superiority of the soul to the body, of the rational to the animal part of our constitution ; upon the worthiness, refinement, and delicacy, of some satisfactions, or the meanness, grossness, and sensuality, of others ; because 1 hold that pleasures differ in nothing, but in continuance and intensity...
第 424 頁 - When those difficult cases occur, they are difficult, chiefly because, while we have them under consideration, all the reasons pro and con are not present to the mind at the same time ; but sometimes one set present themselves, and at other times another, the first being out of sight. Hence the various purposes or inclinations that alternately prevail, and the uncertainty that perplexes us.
第 115 頁 - Whenever we are led to consider ourselves as the authors of any effect, we feel a sensible pride or exultation in the consciousness of Power ; and the pleasure is, in general, proportioned to the greatness of the effect, compared to the smallness of our exertion.
第 252 頁 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
第 455 頁 - The peculiarity of the moral habits, contradistinguishing them from the intellectual acquisitions, is the presence of two hostile powers, one to be gradually raised into the ascendant over the other. It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, never to lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right.
第 49 頁 - We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud 'electricity,' and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? "What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

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