James M. Baldwin

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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