James Mark Baldwin Quotes

• 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 Mark Baldwin

  Art, Self, Use

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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

  James Mark Baldwin

  Psychology, Mind, Definite

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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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 Mark Baldwin

  Ideas, Feelings, Balance

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of psychology”

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• The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Mean, Thinking, Savages

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”

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• Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Modification, Machinery, Heredity

  Princeton University, James Mark Baldwin (1896). “Contributions to Psychology”

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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 Mark Baldwin

  Self, Psychology, Development

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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

  James Mark Baldwin

  Data, Problem, Term

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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

  James Mark Baldwin

  Psychology, Pseudo, Periods

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Mind, Periods, Infancy

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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

  James Mark Baldwin

  Plato, Ideas, Unions

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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

  James Mark Baldwin

  Mind, Matter, Firsts

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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

  James Mark Baldwin

  Self, Two, Consciousness

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Race, Progress, Remember

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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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 Mark Baldwin

  Order, Soul, Important

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Illumination, Two, Germany

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”

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