Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will

by Joseph Haven

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ISBN-13:	9789357388931
Publisher:	Alpha Edition
Publication date:	05/18/2023
Pages:	386
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.86(d)

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Results Op . Thb Pkbceding Analysis us A Tabulae Form: POWERS OF THE INTELLECT. J. Presextative, lerception. n Representative, I1- Of. the Actual, . . . Memory. ( 2. Of the Ideal, . . . Imagination. JU. Ebflbotivb, j 1. Synthetic, Generalization. ( 2. Analytic, .... Reasoning. IV. IsmirnVE, Original Conception. § ITL Historical Sketch Variocs Divisions Op Thb Mentai Faculties. The earlier Division. The general division of the powers of the mind, for a long time prevalent among the earlier modern philosophers, was into two chief departments, known under different names, but including under the one what we now term the intellect, under the other what we designate as the sensibilities and the will, which were not then, as now, distinguished from each other in the general division, but thrown into one department. Under the first of these departments, they included the thinking and reasoning powers, the strictly intellectual part of our nature; under the second, whatever brings the mind into action the impelling and controlling power or principle the affections, emotions, desires, volitions, etc. The names given to these two divisions varied with different writers, but the difference was chiefly in the name, the principle of division being the same. By some authors they were designated as the contemplative and the active powers, by others cognitive and motive. The latter was the nomenclature proposed by Hobbes. Others again adopted the terms understanding and will, by which to mark the two divisions; Locke, Reid, some of the French philosophers, and, in our own country, Edwards, followed this division. Stewart designates the- die one class as the intellectual, and the other asthe a and moral powers. Brown objects to this phraseology n the ground tha...