Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217996563
Paperback|9780217996563
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...as he schemes for himself. When he does, it is normal, to be sure; but it rather surprises us. Different children differ in this respect, and cases sometimes seem to show that a child may be more active on the side of generosity than of self-aggression; yet generally it is the contrary; and the fact simply shows that while both attitudes are equally possible, and from the childs point of view equally reasonable, yet the selfish attitude is liable to prevail.1 (2) There is reason for this, also, in the method of his progress toward ethical and social standing. He must be personally efficient in order to be socially efficient. Man must live and accumulate for himself and his family before he can be a public servant. And in the childs life this means that he is to become a man, at all events, whatever else he may become. He must grow up to be an individual; that is incumbent on him at all hazards; what more he may attain in the way of being a good or wise or social individual is based on this first presupposition. 1 See the instance of an inventive social lie given above, Sect 71. (3) This is reflected, moreover, in the movement by which his inner development proceeds. It will be remembered that we found the child going through three stages of personal thought, called projective (his sense of others before he distinguishes between them and himself), then subjective (his sense of himself as distinguished from others), then ejective (the sense of others as like himself). These three thoughts, we had occasion to say, are not strictly chronological; the dialectic movement between the first and the second, and between the second and the third, being a constant process all through life. But the logical order is that named; and it is also a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217996563 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217996566 |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 In |
| List Price | $26.25 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 370 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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