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1 online resource (2 preliminary leaves, 358 pages) table |
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Ebsco PsychBooks
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"Humanics should be permitted to erect a school in the field of knowledge; for, if no complete and permanent edifice can as yet be raised, sufficient materials are nevertheless on hand to begin the work of constructing a "Science of Human Nature." Humanics is the science of man. Hence, recalling the fact that all sciences are connected and dependent upon each other, let us endeavor to mark the place of Humanics. Every science involves in itself our physical and moral constitution--every art is the work of that constitution. Hence, sciences and arts necessarily conform to human nature itself, and are moulded agreeably to it as their matrix and author; but it is not the province of any science, except Humanics, to study man in the aggregate, and in every particular, as a distinct or pivotal subject of knowledge. Thus, it is clear, a place in the classification of knowledge is necessarily marked for the science of Humanics. While, without its contributions, the other sciences would be imperfect; and while they all appeal to it for grounds and rationale, they do not singly or together profess to embrace its contents. How are we to know what properly belongs to Humanics, and what is merely collateral? Simply by keeping in view our design, which is to know man as distinguishable from all the rest of animate and inanimate nature. Humanics must look into the whole nature of man. Zoology describes him only so far as he belongs to the series of sensational organisms. Psychology contemplates him only as an intellectual being. Ethics regards him only in his emotional character. Physiology observes him only as the vehicle of vital functions. History depicts him as performing action. But man is not merely sentimental, moral, vital or automatic: he is all of these together. Hence it is necessary, in order to know him, to bring back these elements to their common centre, and, to reconstitute the human unit. Let us therefore study each of the constituents: their co-ordination with the whole--their points of connection as a body--their respective reaction as parts of the totality--their combination into a single man. And thus taking man as sensation, thought, emotion, vitality, and action forming together one organism, we proceed to our investigation. This division into: 1. Vitality, 2. Sensation, 3. Emotion, 4. Thought, 5. Action, is the most radical, and withal the most adequate I can find, in the least number of general terms, to comprise all the phenomena exhibited by man as an organic entity. Vitally man embodies the conditions and processes of vegetative life: he has organs of generation, respiration, secretion, nutrition; and so have plants, and like them he grows, lives, reproduces himself, decays, and dies. Sensationally, man embodies the conditions and processes of animal life. Man feels, tastes, smells, hears, and sees; and so do brutes. Like them, he has bones, muscles, nerves, blood, etc. Like them, he is locomotive, etc. Emotionally, man embodies not only the animal propensities, but also human sentiments. On the one side, he is the creature of instinct; on the other, a moral agent. Thus, there is in emotion a link which connects with brute feeling, and another which unites with intelligence. Intellectually, man embodies distinct elements, and becomes essentially himself, finding ground to hope for a total severance of the thread which ties him to matter. Actively, man combines all the elements of organic evolution, Life, Sensation, Emotion, and Thought, for the purposes of Truth, Beauty, Art, and Progress, and constantly vindicates on earth his claims to a Divine Parentage"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Print version record |
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PsycBOOKS (EBSCO) EBSCO |
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Psychology.
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Psychology
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psychology.
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Psychology
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Electronic book
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9780243679256 |
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0243679254 |
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