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1 online resource (xxi, 169 pages) : illustrations |
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Is God a spirit? -- The existence of the human soul. Wolff's rules -- How to acquire a knowledge of the soul -- The formal difference between perceptions -- Observanda. [Diversities of tremulations.] How the membranes seem to be effigied. The tremors in the tunics. The formations of the tremulations -- Sensation -- Imagination -- Sleep and dreaming -- The faculty of picturing -- The memory -- Attention and reflection -- Concerning the intellect and cognition -- The three operations of the intellect -- Natural dispositions and habits of the intellect -- Concerning pleasure and weariness -- Sensitive appetite and sensitive aversion -- Affections -- Concerning the will -- The will and its determinations -- Concerning the varied constitution of the soul, and concerning the soul after death -- Concerning the philosophy of particles -- The membranes -- [Nature is mechanical] -- The membranes -- [Concerning philosophy] -- Faith in Christ |
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"The first title involves a systematic comparison of the whole of Wolff's philosophy with the philosophy of Swedenborg, whereas the work itself consists merely of notes made on various points in Wolff's Psychologia Empirica interspersed with sundry observations. The second title, while indeed descriptive, seems to involve that the work was written as a set treatise, whereas on the face of it, it is nothing more than notes written during the course of reading. We have preferred therefore the title 'Psychologica' or Psychological Notes. As to the nature of the work itself which is now presented to the public, this we shall leave to the judgment of the reader. Suffice it to say that it marks one more step on the path that will lead the student to a clearer understanding of that doctrine of the soul which was present in Swedenborg's mind even when he wrote the Principia; which so deeply influenced the whole of his subsequent writings; which it was the goal of his ambition to set forth in clearer light, that men might be led to venerate, worship and adore the wisdom of God; and which, finally, firmly established in his own mind, was to become the means whereby he might rationally receive and fitly present to the world, the heavenly doctrine of the New Jerusalem"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Text in Latin and English |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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PsycBOOKS (EBSCO) EBSCO |
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Wolff, Christian, Freiherr von, 1679-1754. Psychologia empirica
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Psychology -- Early works to 1850.
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Psychology.
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Psychology
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psychology.
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Psychology.
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Early works.
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Electronic book
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Acton, Alfred, 1867-
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Wolff, Christian, Freiherr von, 1679-1754.
Psychologia empirica
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