James Mark Baldwin
James Mark Baldwin
This page is about the philosopher and psychologist. See also James Baldwin...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth12 January 1861
CountryUnited States of America
race progress remember
The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.
illumination two half
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
ideas feelings balance
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
mean thinking facts
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
art self use
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
mind infancy periods
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
self psychology development
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
psychology mind definite
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
self two consciousness
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
mind matter firsts
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
plato ideas unions
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
psychology pseudo periods
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
order soul important
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
data problem term
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.