German Psychology of 'to-Day

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Excerpt from German Psychology of 'to-Day: The Empirical School American and English students will be grateful to have M. Ribot's valuable work in their own tongue by a competent translator. It contains the combined result of careful observations, experiments, and calculations which can not be obtained otherwise, except by reading innumerable books and monographs most difficult to collect. His interpretations and criticisms also are original and profound. If we would properly estimate the exact nature and functions of what is called Physiological Psychology, we must adhere resolutely to two positions, which to some may seem opposed, but are really confirmatory of each other. I. It is by self-consciousness that in the first instance, and in the last instance, and throughout, we know the actings of the mind. We assume, what every one admits, that there are a special set of phenomena, that is, observed facts, which we denominate mental or psychical: such are sensations, perceptions, judgments, hopes and fears. These are not perceived by the senses. No man ever saw a recollection or touched an emotion. We have an inward as well as an outward sense, and we are conscious of them. We are more, we are conscious of them as acts of self. They are not memories or feelings indefinite, or of our neighbors, but of ourselves. We thus know self always in particular modes and activities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.