| The Active Animal Faculties Or Instinct |
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| The Two Basic Forces Of Animal Activity |
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| The Relationship Between The Two Basic Animal Forces And The Alternating Movement Of The Nervous System |
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| The Life Instinct |
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| The Life Instinct Acts In Extension |
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| The Double Effect Of The Life Instinct |
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| Origin Of The Life Instinct |
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| Origin Of The Sensuous Instinct |
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| The Action Of The Life Instinct |
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| The Action Of The Sensuous Instinct |
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| Nature's Healing Forces Arise From The Life Instinct, Disruptive Forces From The Sensuous Instinct |
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| A Further Explanation Of The Activity Of The Sensuous Instinct |
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The conditions required for a satisfactory explanation of the activity of the sensuous instinct |
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The general cause of spontaneous animal movement |
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Explanation of the continuation of the movement produced by the sensuous instinct |
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Explanation of the order found in movements of the sensuous instinct which are commonly believed to depend for their formation on some degree of reason |
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Three causes explaining order in the functions of the sensuous instinct |
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The first cause of order in animal movements: the order found in external stimuli arousing the animal to feeling and movement |
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The second cause of order: the harmony existing between the different parts and forces of the body |
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The third cause of order: the nature of the animal's own spontaneous activity |
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Laws of spontaneous activity in the soul arising from the union between soul and body |
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Laws of spontaneous activity in the soul arising from inertia |
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Laws of spontaneous animal activity which depend upon the unitive force with which the animal is endowed |
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The first function of animal unitive force: to join together the sensations of different senses,especially those of sight and touch |
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The second function of the unitive force: associating sensations and images (the bond enabling images to co-exist) |
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The third function of the unitive force: fusing several sensations and images into a single, well-ordered affection (the effecting bond) |
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The fourth function of the unitive force: to unite passive and active feelings (the bond of innermost sense) |
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Summary: a description of the origin of instinctive movement |
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Explanation of the imitative instinct |
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How passive and active elements are intimately united in the essence of the animal |
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| Fichte's Assertion That Action Alone Furnishes Us With Belief In The External World |
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