| 单词 | purposive |
| 例句 | For them, as we saw in Chapter 9, the argument from design depended on envisaging the universe as manufactured, rather than on showing nature itself to be purposive. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle thought about the natural world in exactly the same way: that is to say, he saw it as the product of rational, purposive activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the truth is, purposive behavior is everywhere in nature and doesn’t require brains. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z These machines are basically very simple, and the principles of unconscious purposive behavior are among the commonplaces of engineering science. Science doesn’t disprove God: Where Richard Dawkins and new atheists go wrong 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z A purposive single-mindedness permeates all of Lees's works, but his approachable style and fine craftsmanship earned him high regard and many leading performances, recordings and awards in his lifetime. Benjamin Lees obituary 2010-06-07T17:37:00Z They take place in the cosmic context of a naturally telic, purposive universe. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather than though religion and tradition – provide ample grounds for a purposive existence. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z "A good read" is now considered the highest recommendation, though the phrase is entirely non-descriptive and reduces a once purposive and active verb to a meek and passive noun. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Peppering in tracks from from Buffalo Springfield, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Harvest, and The Beach, Young showcased his already extensive catalogue through poignant, purposive vocals and ardent acoustic strumming. Neil Young Live Album Reveals Singer-Songwriter’s Emotions 2013-11-27T13:00:02Z Circulating through this purposive material stockpile is the only way to experience an art built entirely on double takes. As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z If McCarthy had known that Merian learned her entomology by rearing silkworms when she was a little girl, he might have made more purposive use of her work. Peter Carey? Doesn't know his leeches. Tom McCarthy? Bad on moths 2010-10-17T20:44:00Z Public policy is the broad strategy government uses to do its job, the relatively stable set of purposive governmental behaviors that address matters of concern to some part of society. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z With her caring but purposively unmoored essays, she has done just this. Review | Pushing back against the American tendency to forget 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Its founders chose, at the moment of inception, to be intellectually dishonest — which, I would further argue, is in keeping with their purposively constipated "originalist/textualist" approach. The Federalist Society built this Supreme Court — but how did it get its dishonest name? 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z If there is any hope for a better world, it lies in the daily effort to expand the circle of those we believe should be treated as full, purposive and dignified human beings. Perspective | The anthropologists who upended the ‘science’ of white supremacy 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Grant evolved into the first purposively Christian pop star, as well as a stylish, subtle singer-songwriter. The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Policy is also purposive, or intended to do something; that is, policymaking is not random. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Gracing the covers of the High Times Special Trippy Issue are three of Prince’s Hippie Drawings, purposively naive, like an arguably stable 21st century man trying to doodle like an electroshock victim. High art: how the creative world is helping legal weed rebrand itself 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Unlike the publicity stunt manufactured by Kim Davis, her lawyers, and elements within the church hostile to Francis’ agenda, this meeting was both deliberate and purposive. Pope Francis met with openly gay couple — and unlike Kim Davis, who ambushed him, he did so intentionally 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The visceral excitement we feel when we witness quite this much apparently purposive human activity carries the day – and the subsequent ones. London’s high-rise future: thrusting, exhilarating, yet strangely insubstantial 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Others leaped to the conclusion that someone had applied for a credit card in a purposive effort to trigger the Bank of America letter. Why Apologize For Data Brokers? 2014-02-07T05:14:00Z But it is a judge’s job to interpret the Constitution, and she gave it a purposive construction with which most judges—in America, the U.K., and elsewhere—would have agreed. Sri Lanka Sacks Chief Justice 2013-03-01T23:00:00Z The probabilities are that in their first origin the reactions were not purposive. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z After half an hour, or an hour of this purposive, but unreasoned, activity, he chances to put his paw upon the latch and escapes. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z Physically, no one could exist, if he had to guide and regulate the circulation, respiration, and digestion of his body by conscious and purposive acts. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Successful responses to novel data, associations by similarity and purposive behavior are in only apparent opposition to the fundamental laws of associative learning. The Psychology of Arithmetic 2012-03-31T02:00:28.817Z It would thus seem that the religious songs composed in the usual way by the negroes of the present generation have less conviction, and more purposive features in their composition. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z Its vehicle, in short, may be mere impulse, or inclination, and even passion: but it is the choice and the purposive adoption of means to the given end. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The development of associations of various kinds, especially such as are helpfully purposive, are the outcome of that social quality in man's mind which is the surest index of his rational quality. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Yet one element of this theory remains valuable: knowledge is indeed a purposive activity, a reconstruction of the world in the service of ideals of the will. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Here voluntary and purposive education takes its place by the side of organic development. Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z Chesbrough defines open innovation as "the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and to expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively." How to Crowdsource Your R&D 2011-09-20T20:15:00Z Intelligence as connoting purposive action remains as much a fact as gravity or chemical attraction, and continues valid concerning the phenomena it is intended to cover. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z To be sure, we must not forget that we have to deal here with a causal and not with a purposive point of view. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z So that the spring out of which our world is to arise may be described as either the idea informed with purposive energy, or purpose or will informed and guided by the idea. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Buddha's interpretation of the Dhyāna is not losing consciousness but a self-possessed and purposive eradication of egotism. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z To address this we’ve embedded a purposive sample in our sample design in addition to the systematic sample. Scientist at Work: On Sampling Methods and Santa Rosa 2011-03-29T14:40:29Z Open innovation is “the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively.” Everything You Need to Know About Open Innovation 2011-03-21T17:02:51Z Green. directed by self-conscious and purposive intelligence to an end conceived as good,—that the polemic of T.H. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Into the formation of concepts, therefore, two factors are operative, an objective empirical factor, and a subjective or purposive factor. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The factional life is mediative and instrumental; the personal life is initiative and purposive. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker A purposive sample is when you intentionally select specific survey participants. Scientist at Work: On Sampling Methods and Santa Rosa 2011-03-29T14:40:29Z Moral virtue, which is that of the irrational desires so far as they are obedient to reason, is a purposive habit in the mean. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" This process of organization and purposive direction is exemplified in every act of attention. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The word teleology means the view of things as adapting means towards purposive ends. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy A volitionally, purposively active being is always a seeker as well as a doer. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The world of God, which is the world of morality, and which leads to man, the image of God, must be based upon the free, purposive creative act of God. Jewish Theology And if we are satisfied that the fighting in the one case is purposive, so, too, must we regard it as having some biological purpose to serve in the other. Territory in Bird Life Out of the mass of more or less inchoate activities240 a certain response is selected as a rallying-point for the rest, and this selection is of a purposive character. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude And when we come to inorganic matter, we find that even here its movements are purposive, but no one could suppose them deliberate and conscious. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Now, such conscious, purposive, deliberate action may and probably does take place at almost the lowest stage of development of society; but not, we may surmise, at quite the lowest. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion The Stoics in particular made a study of teleology, the system of purposive ends in nature. Jewish Theology The world, and especially the world of life, is undoubtedly full of what is de facto purposive. Naturalism And Religion In this way a certain importance is indeed secured to mental facts, but it appears that, so far as purposive action is concerned, we are no better off than we were before. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude It is because he cannot in any other way explain purposive motion that Anaxagoras introduces mind into his otherwise materialistic system. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Thus we may classify acts as wholly involuntary or mechanical, as impulsive, and as distinctly voluntary or purposive. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Thermo-electricity renders possible the direct and purposive utilisation of solar energy. The Forerunners Haeckel went so far as to propose to describe by the term "dysteleology" that part of the science of Biology which collected the facts that gave direct contradiction to the idea of beneficial "purposive arrangement." God and the World A Survey of Thought The purposive nature of the processes of thought, as well as the manner in which they govern the mind, is illustrated by the history of man. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion The talk went on, meaningless and random on her part, quite deliberate and purposive on his. The Rainbow Will these ill-effects disappear with the realisation of the modern efforts for a purposive and deliberate sexual enlightenment? The Sexual Life of the Child Moreover, without a nervous system, the action of the parts of a sun-dew leaf was proved to be as apparently purposive as the combined action of the limbs of an animal. Life of Charles Darwin There are various powers given to them in accordance with the quality of their matters; which powers determine the length of their duration, their motion, perception, purposive existence. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy These are not authoritative, like the former, but purposive only. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion He wanted to be unanimous with the whole of purposive mankind. The Rainbow One part of sexual education is made up by the question of the purposive sexual enlightenment of children—a matter much discussed at the present day. The Sexual Life of the Child The secret places of the soul set up a powerful opposition to the intruder, even without the purposive action of the patient. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts In that context, he felt the natural rights argument was much weaker and the need for socially defined purposive contours and limitations stronger. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Applied to them the purposive character of the laws is not seen, for their ends are fulfilled. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion He had at length, from his profound sensual activity, developed a real purposive self. The Rainbow This apparently purposive movement has been pointed out by M. Verworn to depend upon stimulation to contraction or the reverse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" They stand for the West, for the energy of the world, for all, in this vast Nature, that is determinate and purposive, not passively repetitionary. Appearances Being Notes of Travel They are, that is to say, purposive in their nature. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty The purposive law is the only final cause which reason allows. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion There is, moreover, a scientific view and method regarding what he calls the purposive view which he overlooks entirely, and which by emphasis of the causal, makes seemingly impossible. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology All purposive action tends to become automatic, whether it be physical or mental, sensory or psychic. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance A purposive route of development and change of correlation and inter-dependence, manifesting intelligent will, is as determinable in the succession of races as in the development and organisation of the individual. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science The organs of adaptation are distinctly and definitely purposive structures�not purposed, perhaps, but certainly purposeful. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty The term "life" here signifies the human purposive consciousness, and active pursuit of ends. The Approach to Philosophy The player, the musician—drunk, or sober, tone-blind or genius—is a mere incident, and however purposive or competent, is 99 admitted by courtesy only, and warned not to interfere too much with the Harp! The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology Nursing for instance, aims purposively for well-being, more-being, health, comfort, growth. Humanistic Nursing In other words, it "claimed to show how something purposively constructed could arise by absolute chance; at any rate this holds of Darwinism as codified in the seventies and eighties." Science and Morals and Other Essays And if Nature is purposive, she is at work at something more than the completion of a prearranged plan. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty There is no being but the absolute, the one all-inclusive spiritual life, in whom all things are inherent, and whose perfection is the virtual implication of all purposive activities. The Approach to Philosophy I hold, that without the purposive view equally included and co-ordinated, there can be no such thing as Scientific Psychology. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology We are thus driven into this dilemma: life must be an energy—but, as such, it cannot be purposive! The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal From the days of Plato to our own times, there have been but few objectors to the teleological or purposive view of nature. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin But this censure too is entirely mistaken, not because it urges the purposive views against the causal but because it is in error as to the facts. Psychotherapy The one reduces the primitive animistic world to the lower end of its scale, the other construes it in terms of a purposive utility commensurable with that of human action. The Approach to Philosophy The complete separation here instituted, between the purposive and causal factors, in itself, for purposes of definition and study, need not be objected to, if it were consistently carried out, which it is not. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology Life is purposive, yet it must be an energy—for otherwise it could not affect the bodily energies and the material world! The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal We grope our way to evolution; through this to purposive evolution; through this to the omnipresence of mind and design throughout the universe; what is this but God? Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Causal effects are sought in a sphere which belongs to purposive values. Psychotherapy Indeed, the only fruitful method applicable to organic phenomena was that which explained them in terms of purposive adaptation. The Approach to Philosophy We may analyze the foundation of the kingdom, and the affairs of state, and designate them as causative, or purposive. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology By some evolutionists, Driesch and Bergson for example, evolution itself, in its steady production of higher types, has been held to be too purposive in character Page 320 to permit of a purely mechanical explanation. Human Traits and their Social Significance These organs are now no longer useful, but they once were so, and were therefore once purposive, though not so now. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin To make clear this purposive side of the case as against the causal one which alone interested the physician, I may add a few features to the short report as a typical example. Psychotherapy Over and above these neglected properties of things there remain the purposive activities of thought. The Approach to Philosophy Hence it is that, in accordance with the received teleological view, it has been customary to admire the so-called 'wisdom of the Creator' and the 'purposive contrivances of His Creation' especially in this matter. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality It is unfortunate that there is no better term than sentimentalism with which to indicate that variety of formalism which is characteristic of the purposive economy. The Moral Economy According to the older Darwinism the lungs are just as purposive as the corkscrew. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Nothing shows more clearly the confusion between a purposive and causal view of the mind. Psychotherapy Under such persons as leaders purposive progress may be achieved more rapidly and effectually in the near future. Society Its Origin and Development If Mr. Spencer's "Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed" is purposive, that is equivalent to saying that God is what we mean by personal. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Since the ability to live is threatened by this specialization it cannot be purposive. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers If each one of the small steps is purposive the result is purposive, though there was never purpose extended over more than one, two, or perhaps at most three, steps at a time. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin We recognized from the start the fundamental difference between two different attitudes which we can take towards the inner life of any personality, the purposive view and the causal. Psychotherapy And I am sure that the ultimate, greatest desire in men is this desire for great purposive activity. Fantasia of the Unconscious Milne-Edwards frankly takes up the teleological standpoint, and interprets organic forms on the assumption that they are purposive and rationally constructed. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Many volumes have been written to give a purposive interpretation of the rise and evolutionary ramifications of living forms. The Necessity of Atheism A definite cause is thus supposed to underlie variations, and the resulting adaptations become purposive; but this was not said, nor, I am afraid, seen. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin His instinctive feeling that disease is a causal process, and that he should therefore keep away from the purposive attitude, leads him too easily to a dangerous narrowness. Psychotherapy He must now give himself perfectly to some further purpose, some passionate purposive activity. Fantasia of the Unconscious The development of purposive internal structure is only to be explained by the properties of the tissues concerned. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Considering the universe as a whole, the Martian fails to find anything that suggests a conscious and purposive god, and certainly nothing to suggest a being that considers the welfare of man. The Necessity of Atheism Was it, as Goethe would have us believe, by sheer purposive will that he kept this dangerous element in him under check and saved himself at critical moments from disaster? The Youth of Goethe From a mere purposive point of view, they may be complete successes. Psychotherapy You have got to base your great purposive activity upon the intense sexual fulfillment of all your individuals. Fantasia of the Unconscious If each one of the small steps is purposive the result is purposive, though there was never purpose extended over more than one, two, or perhaps at most three steps at a time. Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Memory; a causative combination of the earliest recollections, or memory-images; purposive, deliberate movements for the lessening of individual strain—all these come to the child in greater or less measure independently of verbal language. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. He entered school and meets with the first obligation, with the first necessity for a well-regulated, purposive existence. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry That in the case of religion this submission, from an entirely different purposive point of view, also has a moral and religious value, has in itself no relation to the question of its therapeutic character. Psychotherapy But when the sex passion submits to the great purposive passion, then you have fulness. Fantasia of the Unconscious According to the older Darwinism the lungs are just as purposive as the corkscrew. Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals A purposive route of development and change, of correlation and inter-dependence, manifesting intelligent will, is as determinable in the succession of races as in the development and organization of the individual. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 His lack of stability, his inability for any continuous purposive effort, made him slip from under the stress. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry No doubt in our daily life, our purposive interest and our causal interest may intertwine at any moment. Psychotherapy And no great purposive passion can endure long unless it is established upon the fulfillment in the vast majority of individuals of the true sexual passion. Fantasia of the Unconscious Organic chemistry does not differ intrinsically from inorganic; the difference between the two lies in the purposive activity of the elements that build up a living body. The Breath of Life But soon the eye could discern movements of purposive kind on the part of the alarmed residents. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. It answers to a stimulus with an appearance of purposive action, but it initiates nothing. Death—and After? We indeed have no right to throw into a psychological subconsciousness all that which is not present but involved by intention in the ideas and volitions of our purposive life. Psychotherapy There must be the great purposive inspiration always present. Fantasia of the Unconscious The solar system may be regarded as a unit, but it has not the purposive unity of a living body. The Breath of Life If it should be argued in reply that the selection in the one case is obviously purposeless, while in the other it is as obviously purposive, I answer that this is pure assumption. Thoughts on Religion Here is a pure mechanism, giving rise to a purposive action, and strictly comparable to that by which Descartes supposes his waterwork Diana to be moved. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews If we are to deal at all with inner life not from a purposive but from a causal point of view, we are obliged to admit this reconstruction. Psychotherapy But it would be idle to claim to-day for exact psychology, with its methods of causal thought, regions in which so far popular psychology, with its methods of purposive thought, is still sovereign. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency The influence of the environment may bring about chemical and physical changes in a non-living body, but they are not purposive as in a living body. The Breath of Life Of the voluntary, purposive crying of infants a little older Page 116 I am not here speaking. The Nervous Child The individual cannot be immediately transformed by individual purpose and action into a consummate social type, any more than society can be immediately transformed by purposive national action into a consummate residence for the individual. The Promise of American Life If we take the purposive attitude, then every idea and every will contains indeed all that its meaning involves and everything which we can logically develop out of it is by intention contained in it. Psychotherapy The mind, indeed, reaches all the way, and while on the one hand it is inspired by the Almighty, on the other it energizes the body, all whose purposive life it originates. A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga Such facts only show that in the matter of adaptation among living organisms, there is a factor at work other than chemistry and physics—not independent of them, but making a purposive use of them. The Breath of Life The first purposive movements of the child's limbs are carried out in order to evoke tactile sensations. The Nervous Child Much more important than the general motor phenomena, more purposive though involuntary, are the specifically sexual muscular movements. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy But here we abstract from the purposive relations. Psychotherapy And it is impossible to think of "purposive tendency" without assuming the existence of mental power of some kind. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga Children in the kindergarten can think out their little problems purposively, even though reasoning is supposed to mark the high school pupil. How to Teach The first purposive movements of the child should be welcomed and encouraged. The Nervous Child In all these respects the conflict of ideas belongs to the level of purposive and not of natural selection. Recent Tendencies in Ethics In the purposive view of our real life, only our will and our personality have a meaning and can be related to the ideas and higher aims. Psychotherapy Among the participants in the revolutionary process, the far-seeing, imaginative, perceptive and mature develop into purposive revolutionaries. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History One other fact in connection with repetition should be noted, namely, that the exercise given any connection by the learner, freely, of his own initiative counts more than that given under purposive learning. How to Teach The child whose impulses towards purposive action are encouraged is generally a happy child, with a mind at rest. The Nervous Child And in the conflict of ideas, whether moral or intellectual, the issue is determined by a selection which is predominantly purposive, and only in the slightest degree natural. Recent Tendencies in Ethics It contains causal and purposive elements without any possibility of unifying them. Psychotherapy Then you get the aesthetic or teleologic kinds of rationality, saying that whatever fits in any way, whatever is beautiful or good, whatever is purposive or gratifies desire, is rational in so far forth. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy These laws apply in all cases of habit formation, whether they be the purposeless habits of children or the purposive habits of maturity. How to Teach Whatever in the latter is perfect, rational, harmonious, and purposive is the work of the understanding; the irrational remainder, on the other hand, conflict and lawlessness, abortion, sickness and death, originates in the dark ground. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time If we return to the conflict of groups we shall see that even there purposive selection enters. Recent Tendencies in Ethics One moves in the purposive sphere, the other in the causal sphere. Psychotherapy This conclusion follows irresistibly from the isolated conception of mind, but by the same logic it disappears when we perceive what mind really is—namely, the purposive and directive factor in the development of experience. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Choice passages in his writings are frequently extracted, often with a little purposive modification, to emphasize some Christological design. Josephus The invariableness of the divine working and the purposive harmony of creation reveal the wisdom and goodness of the Almighty more clearly than "astonishing and exceptional events." History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time He had never conceived of a coherent purposive life. Twilight in Italy From a purposive point of view there cannot be faith enough, from a causal point of view there can easily be too much of the faith emotion. Psychotherapy These conceptions are consistent with the philosophy which sees intelligence to be the purposive reorganization, through action, of the material of experience; and they are inconsistent with each of the dualistic philosophies mentioned. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education All purposive actions are ultimately based on philosophy of one sort or another. Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians As the Letters ascribe the purposive construction of organic beings to a divine reason, so the Pantheisticon also stops short before it reaches the extreme of naked materialism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time So the Italian, through centuries, has avoided our Northern purposive industry, because it has seemed to him a form of nothingness. Twilight in Italy We know that the one, the causal aspect, belongs to psychology, while the non-psychological, the purposive aspect, belongs to our immediate mutual understanding in the walks of life. Psychotherapy The fact that thought essentially refers to a 'reality' external to it in no way diminishes its purposive character. Pragmatism However, we must grant that at the first glance the teleological theory seems to give the simplest and most satisfactory explanation of these purposive structures. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 That heredity is only possible under the circumstances of a constant superintendence of the embryonic development by a purposive unconscious activity of growth. Unconscious Memory He is concerned with conduct, which is intelligent and purposive action. A Handbook of Ethical Theory To characterize the difference, it may be said at once that it is a purposive view which belongs to the minister. Psychotherapy To the Humanist the best definition of life is one which displays it as throughout purposive, as a rational pursuit of ends. Pragmatism Formerly, this work was conceived in a teleological sense, and it was sought to find traces of the plan of the Creator in the actual purposive organisation of animals. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 The organism is essentially purposive: the impossibility of devising any adequate accounts of organic form and function without taking account of the psychical side is most strenuously asserted. Unconscious Memory Must we not admit that in all purposive action—the only action with which the moralist need concern himself—there is a striving to realize or satisfy desire in the attainment of some object? A Handbook of Ethical Theory Thus he has to exclude the purposive interpretation of inner life and has to understand every factor involved from a psychological point of view: his psychotherapy must be thoroughly applied psychology. Psychotherapy This purposive unity cannot well be secured without spatial contiguity; here, as in sculpture, a unified life demands a unified material. The Principles of Aesthetics We have everywhere been able to substitute unconscious causes, acting from necessity, for conscious, purposive causes.* The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Yet it is not entirely the same; the term signifies a purposive and systematic, and therefore a more limited, kind of work than much that goes under that name. How to Study and Teaching How to Study They may have the appearance of being vaguely purposive, although we would never attribute purpose to the creature making them. A Handbook of Ethical Theory The purposive mind has its connection in itself, the causal psychological mind demands for its connection the body. Psychotherapy The obviously disinterested and warmly emotional admiration of the shape will prevent the admiration for the purposive adaptation from being cold and abstract. The Principles of Aesthetics We have seen too that wherever it is present, the person curiously directs himself, passing through all the varieties of purposive activity which were catalogued in the chapter on self- direction. The Nature of Goodness In the first place, we experience that our life is not a bare mechanical motion or change, but is a spiritual, purposive, and self-directing force. The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan As the rains and use flatten the apex fresh stuff is deposited with a trifling amount of labour, to afford an illustration of "purposive conscious action." Confessions of a Beachcomber It is only a loose popular way of speaking, if this purposive analysis of a character is often called psychological. Psychotherapy By this means the beauty of mere appearance will strike and occupy the mind, inducing the aesthetic attitude towards the outside, from which it may then spread and embrace the inner, purposive meaning. The Principles of Aesthetics Until that period the imperial movement has been due to voluntary and purposive action in a far higher degree than any of the blind early wanderings of peoples. The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History It seemed conscious, malevolent, purposive in its intense murderous coldness. Women in Love And of this simplest form of life—the vegetable kingdom—I became vividly aware, prodigal, mysterious, yet purposive. The Garden of Survival The first act is thus for us, the thinkers, not a part of the causal events, but a purposive intention towards an ideal. Psychotherapy By a free act of faith the scattered and imperfect fragments must be built into a purposive unity. The Principles of Aesthetics We shall see Again men's passions, virtues, visions, crimes, Obey resistlessly The purposive, unmotived, dominant Thing Which sways in brooding dark their wayfaring! The Dynasts Mastery of the elements comes from perfectly concentrated Meditation on their five forms: the gross, the elemental, the subtle, the inherent, the purposive. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man On the other hand: nothing better expresses the idea of purposive, responsible, and self-directed guidance of the reproductive powers. The Pivot of Civilization Causal truth can be only the second word; the first word remains to purposive truth. Psychotherapy In real life we start from certain perceived acts and utterances, to which we then attach purposive meanings, and between which we establish relations. The Principles of Aesthetics Life must be purposive else it is vain and futile, and the feeling of no achievement and failure is far more disastrous than a thousand inhibitions. The Foundations of Personality But because natural instincts endure beyond their period of purposive efficiency, it does not follow that they are unconnected with that efficiency; we eat and drink also when the food is superfluous as nourishment. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The historian, for instance, who tries to understand the will relations of humanity, is the more the true historian the more he sticks to this purposive view of man. Psychotherapy If the doors of the causal mind and of the purposive mind are both open, and the spectator does not notice that there are two, any trick on thought and reason can easily be played. Psychotherapy The sequence cannot be a mere succession or even a simple causal series, but must also be purposive, because, in order to be aesthetic, the goal which is reached must have value. The Principles of Aesthetics Love, then, is this tender feeling made purposive and intelligent. The Foundations of Personality The purposive view of inner life ought not to be in question when the patient enters the doctor's office. Psychotherapy The decision as to the aims of education must be made by ethics, which indeed takes not a causal but a purposive attitude. Psychotherapy The whole causal view of man is thus a tool in the service of the purposive man. Psychotherapy In that purposive world of immediate life experience, we also are unities inasmuch as we ourselves know us as the same in every new will of ours. Psychotherapy The purposive unity must now transform itself into an endless complexity, and our own self becomes a composite of hundreds of thousands of elements. Psychotherapy And now this may be said at once: the causal view only is the view of psychology; the purposive view lies outside of psychology. Psychotherapy Truth, beauty, and morality are thus expressions of the self in its purposive aspect. Psychotherapy As far as he decides to take care of the health of his patient, this decision itself belongs to the purposive world and to his moral system. Psychotherapy And in this internal unity of meaning, nothing breaks ourselves into pieces, and the whole manifold of experience is thus expressed by a personality which knows itself in its purposive unity. Psychotherapy If the minister says to his despairing parishioner, "Be courageous, my friend, and be faithful," nothing but a strictly purposive view gives meaning to the situation. Psychotherapy No, the poet deals with human beings from the purposive standpoint of life and the mere resolving of complex purposes into parts of purposes is not psychology in the technical sense of the term. Psychotherapy I understand his inner life by taking a purposive point of view. Psychotherapy If we love our family and like our friends, and deal with the man of the street, we are certainly moving in a world of purposive reality. Psychotherapy |
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