Samuel Alexander
Samuel Alexander
Samuel Alexander OMwas an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth6 January 1859
CountryAustralia
practice life-is ends
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
distinguished sensory objects
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
phrases may lasts
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
reflection class ideas
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
perception
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
mind perception reactions
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
swag two kind
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
stars philosophy tree
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy
names sides individualism
It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
firsts expected objects
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
memories practice facts
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
memories expectations good-memories
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
expectations objects belonging
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
psychology deals whole
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.