Life in mind & conduct : studies of organic in human nature / by Henry Maudsley.

  • Henry Maudsley
Date:
1902
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Credit: Life in mind & conduct : studies of organic in human nature / by Henry Maudsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    CHAPTER IV IMAGINATION AND IDEALISM I. —Imagination Rational and irrational imagination—The delight of delirious imagination —Pathological interpretation—-Dissociation of mental function— Delirium of thought and of feeling—Transcendental feeling and reason —Imaginative shapings of transcendental feeling—Imagination in the different mental functions—Anthropomorphic interpretation of elemental energy—Is the feeling of transcendental union ilhision?— Imagination a function of organic matter—Dreams]; . . . Pages 82—92 n.—The Ideal The partial truth of proverbs, maxims, adages—The ideal in theory and the real in practice—Moral principles idealizations of the real— Constant war between the ideal and the real—Proverbial half truths— Indispensable coexistence of the ideal and the real—Universality of ideals—Optimistic and pessimistic ideals and temperaments—The mean between ideal and real—The ideal of the race—A moral equilibrium incompatible with increase of knowledge—Over-valuation of knowledge—Knowledge essentially selfish—Its glorification in the interest of the species—The cement of society not knowledge but charity—Scientific inventions baneful as well as beneficial—Can know- ledge grow to an ideal perfection ?—Or moral perfection be attainable ? —Confusion of moral ideals—Fanatical enthusiasm of humanity—The eternal paradox—Symbols—Degrees of belief—Worship of' symbols— Idols of wood and stone—Idols of the heart and imagination—The doctrine of the Trinity—Religious worship of pictures and statues— Decay of symbols—Transformation, not cataclysm, in organic develop- ment Pages 92—115 III. —Hypocrisies Habitual hypocrisies—Waves of pessimism—The necessity of h3rpocrisy Its good uses—Self-respect and hypocrisy—Unconscious hypocrisy Mental duality—Hypocrisy concerning the reproductive organs and functions—Mental disintegrations and disintegrate developments Observance of the mean by efiFective hypocrisy-—-Life a mean between extremes—The mean in conduct—Special standpoints of moralitj'. Pages 116—126