Human nature and the social orderCooley, Charles Horton
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Human nature and the social order
Cooley, Charles Horton
Individualism; Social psychology; Sociology
“_The words_ ME, _then, and_ SELF, _so far as they arouse feeling and
connote emotional worth, are_ OBJECTIVE _designations meaning_ ALL THE
THINGS _which have the power to produce in a stream of consciousness
excitement of a certain peculiar sort_.” Psychology, i., p. 319. A
little earlier he says: “_In its widest possible sense_, however, _a
man’s self is the sum total of all he_ CAN _call his_, not only his
body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife
and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his
lands and horses and yacht and bank account. All these things give him
the same emotions.” Idem, p. 291.
So Wundt says of “Ich”: “Es ist ein _Gefühl_, nicht eine Vorstellung,
wie es häufig genannt wird.” Grundriss der Psychologie 4. Auflage, S.
265.
Footnote 38:
It is, perhaps, to be thought of as a more general instinct, of which
anger, etc., are differentiated forms, rather than as standing by
itself.
Footnote 39:
Plumptre’s Sophocles, p. 352.
Footnote 40:
Psychology, i., p. 307.
Footnote 41:
“Only in man does man know himself; life alone teaches each one what
he is.”—Goethe, Tasso, act 2, sc. 3.
Footnote 42:
John Addington Symonds, by H. F. Brown, vol. ii. p. 120.
Footnote 43:
Compare Some Aspects of the Early Sense of Self, American Journal of
Psychology, ix., p 351.
Footnote 44:
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, by F. Darwin, p. 27.
Footnote 45:
This sort of thing is very familiar to observers of children. See, for
instance, Miss Shinn’s Notes on the Development of a Child, p. 153.
Footnote 46:
John Addington Symonds, by H. F. Brown, vol. 1, p. 63.
Footnote 47:
P. 70.
Footnote 48:
P. 74.
Footnote 49:
P. 120.
Footnote 50:
P. 125.
Footnote 51:
P. 348.
Footnote 52:
Attributed to Mme. de Staël.
Footnote 53:
I do not attempt to distinguish between these words, though there is a
difference, ill defined however, in their meanings. As ordinarily used
both designate a phase of self-assertion regarded as censurable, and
this is all I mean by either.
Footnote 54:
Letters, p. 46.
Footnote 55:
Compare Stanley, The Evolutionary Psychology of Feeling, p. 271 _et
seq._
Footnote 56:
Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, Chap. XII., Carlyle’s Translation.
Footnote 57:
Quoted by Gummere, Germanic Origins, p. 266.
Footnote 58:
Œnone.
Footnote 59:
Travels, chap. 10, in Carlyle’s translation.
Footnote 60:
Stanley, The Evolutionary Psychology of Feeling, p. 280.
Footnote 61:
“Strive manfully; habit is subdued by habit. If you know how to
dismiss men, they also will dismiss you, to do your own things.”—De
Imitatione Christi, book i., chap. 21, par. 2.
Footnote 62:
De Imitatione Christi, book iii., chap. 23, par. 1.
Footnote 63:
Tulloch’s Pascal, p. 100.
Footnote 64:
See his History of European Morals, vol. ii., p. 369.
Footnote 65:
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