He calls it a "more intense empiricism" that he predicates on Thoreau's difference from, and necessary rejection of, the transcendental idealism he first learned from an Emerson "who tended to devalue the material world except insofar as it could be put to higher spiritual uses by the human mind." ... This is "the Thoreau of the journals and later natural history projects," as Rochelle Johnson identifies the turn to Thoreau's more ecocentric work of the 1850s, focusing her attention on the abstractions of Emerson's rhetorical nature--that is, nature as raw material of tropes and...

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Human nature is paradoxically crude and amazing. ... Human life is just a wind up toy that eventually fades away. ... Only the human keeps on looking like the fetus, even grown up. ... So the human, that is his mind. Understanding the human therefore means understanding our mind. ...

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As the authoritarinism of the ancients gave way to the more liberal views of the modernists, two main positions concerning epistemology and the nature of the world arose. ... Those that belonged to the empiricist school of thought developed quite separate and distinct ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible objects. ... In fact, the immaterialist position states that these qualities are merely secondary in nature, as they, too, can not be perceived as being separate from an object. ... In fact, these tertiary qualities are also ideas perceived only in the mind.Given that obje...

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As the "living power and prime Agent of all human perception," the Imagination interprets and evaluates new images and information (Coleridge, 750). ... This emphasis on the human minds capability "of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants" is Wordsworths reaction to the growing number of city-dwellers who incessantly crave awesome and abominable "violent stimulants" (Wordsworth, Preface, 575). ... Thus, the mere thought of natures beauty created in the speaker "sweet" emotional and physical sensations of peace. ... The "burthen of the mystery" and "weary weight / O...

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Psychology becomes the center of the modern chslovekoznaniya Academician BG Ananiev decades ago has tracked this trend: thanks to the subject matter of psychology is of particular importance for all the sciences that study human: biological, human, social. 6. ... Because of this, you may receive an answer about the nature and essence of the psyche and its origin. ... Subject, Methods, Approaches, History of Psychology The subject of the history of psychology - understanding of the psyche (its nature, origin, functions, mechanisms) at different stages of the progressive development of science. ...

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The average human being spends one third of their life in sleep and during each sleep approximately two hours is spent dreaming (Ullman and Zimmerman 1979). ... Within the subconscious lie different types of things such as suppressed emotions, creativity, and basic human instinct (Ullman and Zimmerman 1979). ... This is why humans are more apt to wake up at specific times in the night and not sporadically (most people do not notice this however). ... The body will experience these tensions and reactions because this is the active time of sleep in the average human (Davidmann, 1998). ... Thou...

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It activates and stimulates the mind to reflect, critically assess and evaluates all human experiences and interests. As such, philosophy provides one with no definite answer on any one aspect of human knowledge 1. ... Epistemology is the study of the nature of knowledge, ethic is the science of human conduct, logic is the science of reasoning and metaphysics is the study of ultimate reality. ... He emphasized the sharp division between the mind and the body as the most basic fact of our human existence. ... Since doubting is already a proof of his rational nature thus to think is to exist. ...

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Augustine on the Nature of Humanity Humans have struggled throughout the centuries with the complexity and ambiguity of our humanity. ... Although I do not agree with Plato and his notions about the nature of our humanity, I think it is still important to examine his philosophy since it has had a great impact on the western world. Plato believes that an individual is human only to the extent that he resembles or participates in the Form "humanness." ... While Plato was interested in describing what we are as humans, the bible and my personal worldview seeks to describe who we are as h...

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And so such is the nature of our perception of reality. ... Prentice-Hall: Toronto] When we look at something from a reality standpoint, we see things for what they really are, without the human associations and interpretations. ... LOGICO-SCIENTIFIC PERCEPTION OF REALITY: If we are concerned with: The purpose of life What we should be doing on Earth The meaning of life and death Then the issue of reality and the true nature of our existence is crucial. ... Similarly in this way the rest of our senses are also influenced by the secondary qualities which are defined by their re...

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He argued that we (humans) are not constituted so that we can know all, but are born with enough basic knowledge to enable us to avoid pain and seek pleasure. Locke wrote his essay concerning human understanding in 1690 offering the renowned metaphor comparing the mind to lank slate on which experience writes. This statement clearly and concisely describes his belief that human understanding ultimately derives from experiences that are perceived through the senses, not through some kind of predetermined reaction. ... Human nature is to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Although these are inherent ...

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The category of mind includes human minds, such as Neo, Morpheus, you and me. ... The main subcategories are machine, human body or a human organ, and things that are none of these. ... The prime example of the third main category of the real-the composite of mind and body-is a human being, Morpheus refers to this category indirectly when he explains to Neo that dying in the Matrix implies dying in the real world: "The body cannot live without the mind."" ... Or put in anther way, why is it that minds, machines, human bodies, computer programs, and electrical signals are real and simulatio...

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Ignoring the criticisms of his own Father, Victor tells himself, "I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable, " "the raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favorite authors" (Shelley 46). ... Disassociation is the psychoanalytic concept of dual or multiple personalities defined by "the view that human beings are double or multiple in nature" (267). ... Victor describes to Walton time spent observing "decay and corruption of the human body," "to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults a...

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Kohler had many professional accomplishments and publications on the understanding of human perception that I feel are worth mentioning. ... In 1941 Kohler wrote "On the Nature of Associations," in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 84. ...

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