The Emotions and the Will

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Parker, 1859 - 649 Seiten
 

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Circumstances that promote imitation
12
Superiority in the effects of Fine Art eloquence
14
Melody of Speech
16
Specific muscles of expression
18
Control of the Intellectual Trains and Acquirements
27
Physical accompaniment embodiment or expression
31
Feelings may be judged and described by their influence
37
The fixing on some standard feeling or common measure
52
Classes families or natural orders
58
Circumstances governing the spontaneous discharge
68
Case of restrained outburst
81
Distrust of our Faculties in unfamiliar operations
87
TABLE OF CONTENTS ix
94
Diffusive action or Expression
98
Character of the emotion
99
Volitional attributes
100
The power of sustaining volition in absence a compound
102
Effect on Desire
103
Influence on Belief
104
Persons the principal objects of the feeling
105
Family Group 13 Mother and Offspring
106
Explanation of the vicarious operation of Tenderness or the pleasure of working for the beloved object
108
Relation of the Sexes
111
The Benevolent Affections 16 Compassion Benevolent sentiment generally
112
The Lower Animals fit subjects of benevolent sentiment
114
Gratitude ib 19 Generosity ib 20 Benevolence between equals
115
Sorrow ib 22 Ethical Social and Artistic aspects of tenderness
117
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118
Esteem
119
Praise and Admiration Flattery and Adulation
140
Specific forms Position of headship in industrial opera
154
Relation of sentiment of power to emotions of self Note
162
CHAPTER X
184
Contests
190
suit
191
CHAPTER XI
199
Interest arising out of faithful imitation by an Artist
226
Repetition and habit may give an emotional bent
232
Operation of the Intellectual forces of Contiguity
239
Pleasures of the Imagination
243
Senses of Hearing
253
Time in music
261
Symmetry
269
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273
Sublime of Support The mountain precipice and abyss
275
35
280
Beauty and grace in Human Character
281
Punishment the test of Moral Obligation
287
All propositions are propositions affirmed or believed
294
Secondly mankind have been unanimous in imposing
300
Liberty
307
Existing moral rules founded partly on Utility
308
Natural vigour of the constitution
335
Link for connecting spontaneous movements with
342
CHAPTER III
377
Imitation of movements at sight
385
course of the will 482
394
Endurance prompted by the pain of conflict
485
Ideal or imaginary action
487
Persistence of a feeling in absence a condition of imagi nary gratification
488
Examples of ideal activity
489
Emotions suited to imaginary gratification
491
The memory of pleasure has a sting of pain from the sense of its being below the reality
492
Provocatives of desire
494
Susceptibility to ideal inflammation
496
Desire most effectually stimulated by growing pleasure
498
CHAPTER IX
500
Control of Sense and Appetite
501
Examples The habit of early rising
502
The proper initiatives of habits
504
Habits of Temperance
505
Suppression of Instinctive movements
507
Changing the emotional nature as a whole ib 9 Lowering or raising special emotions
509
Habit of Courage ib II Tender Emotion
510
Sentiment of Power Command of the Temper
512
Pleasures of Sport and Plotinterest Emotions of Intellect
513
Sudden conversions as opposed to the slow course of habit
514
Habits modifying the original spontaneity
515
Domestication of the animal tribes
516
Habits in opposition to intellectual trains Concentra tion of thought
517
The more important conditions of the growth of habit
518
CHAPTER X
520
Promptings supplied from without
521
Leisurely meditation an element of prudence
522
Characters moulded on the prudential cast ib 5 Forces hostile to prudence
523
It is possible to predict the future conduct of an indivi dual from the past
524
Duty Selfpromptings
526
Prohibition by penalties the first source of the Moral Sentiment The Slavish Conscience
527
Elements that concur to form the Citizen Conscience
528
The Independent Conscience
532
Aids to conscience
533
Moral Inability
535
Plea of moral inability put forward by an offender
536
CHAPTER XI
539
Examples of problems surrounded with factitious diffi culties The question of the Will affected in this way
541
The phrases Liberty Freedom Freewill Their inappro priateness as applied to volition
544
The doctrine of Freewill not of the kind that conscious
561
In the primitive aspect of Volition belief has no place
568
Belief accompanies action and precedes experience
583
Opposition of confidence and fear
589
How can we be said to believe in things beyond
596
Common tendency of the different significations
605
Neutral excitement has a positive efficacy as regards
612
Sense of Agreement
626
The great problem lies in defining the common ground
629
Perception means sensation and something more
633
Sensation and perception presupposed
635
Knowledge is select or specialized sensation
636
Specializing impulses
637
Relation or comparison essential to knowledge
638
Illustrations derivable from literature art and science
640
The use of language fixes attention on select impressions ib Note Subject and object The External World
641
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Seite 87 - ... 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...
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Seite 87 - 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...
Seite 27 - 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...
Seite 286 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
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Seite 255 - Among these several kinds of beauty the eye takes most delight in colours. We no where meet with a more glorious or pleasing show in nature than what appears in the heavens at the rising and setting of the sun, which is wholly made up of those different stains of light that show themselves in clouds of a different situation.
Seite 147 - As we advance in years, and as our animal powers lose their activity and vigour, we gradually aim at extending our influence over others, by the superiority of fortune and of situation, or by the still more flattering superiority of intellectual endowments ; by the force of our understanding ; by the extent of our information ; by the arts of persuasion, or the accomplishments of address. What but the idea of power pleases the orator, in...
Seite 286 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Seite 146 - 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.

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