The Causational and Free Will Theories of Volition: Being a Review of Dr. Carpenter's "Mental Physiology"Williams and Norgate, 1877 - 106 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 16 - It is quite true that, to the best of my judgment, the argumentation which applies to brutes holds equally good of men; and, therefore, that all states of consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brain-substance.
الصفحة 1 - I am what I am ; a creature of necessity ; I claim neither merit nor demerit." " I feel that I am as completely the result of my nature, and impelled to do what I do, as the needle to point to the north, or the puppet to move according as the string is pulled.
الصفحة 74 - The drunkard not only injures and enfeebles his own nervous system, but entails mental disease upon his family. His daughters are nervous and hysterical; his sons are weak, wayward, eccentric, and sink under the pressure of excitement of some unforeseen exigency, or the ordinary calls of duty.
الصفحة 16 - It seems to me that in men, as in brutes, there is no proof that any state of consciousness is the cause of change in the motion of the matter of the organism.
الصفحة 72 - amount of experience of the sway of motives even tends to make " me distrust my intuitive consciousness, that in resolving after " deliberation I exercise free choice as to which of the motives "acting on me shall prevail.
الصفحة 16 - ... organism. If these positions are well based, it follows that our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which take place automatically in the organism ; and that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act.
الصفحة 72 - For experience soon teaches me to regard these as appearances whose suggestions are misleading ; but no amount of experience of the sway of motives even tends to make me distrust my intuitive consciousness that in resolving after deliberation I exercise free choice as to which of the motives acting upon me shall prevail.
الصفحة 72 - in the moment of deliberate " volition, that my volition is completely determined by my formed " character and the motives acting upon it.
الصفحة 39 - pains of Exercise, and the gratification of succeeding in an end, 'with the opposite mortification of missing what is laboured 'for, there is in the attitude of pursuit, a peculiar state of mind, ' so far agreeable in itself, that factitious occupations are insti'tuted to bring it into play. When I use the term plot-interest, ' the character of the situation alluded to will be suggested with
الصفحة ii - The belief that events are determinately related to the state of things immediately preceding them, is now held by all competent thinkers in respect of all kinds of occurrences except human volitions...