| Psychology | |
| Part Two (contd) |
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| Book 5 | |
| Appendix: Laws of Animality | |
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| The law of life instinct |
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The law explained |
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Functions of the life instinct |
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Observations on the functions of the life instinct |
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| The law of sensuous instincts |
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The law explained |
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Functions of the sensuous instinct |
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Observations on the functions of the sensuous instinct |
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| How animal movements arise |
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| Apparent opposition between the laws of corporeal matter and of animal activity |
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Inertia |
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Attraction |
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The struggle we have described is twofold |
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| Different senses which can be given to the word 'conciliation' in the question 'Does the struggle between the vital principle and foreign forces admit of conciliation?' |
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| The struggle between life instinct and 'mechanical forces' does not admit of conciliation |
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Various assertions |
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Reasons given by those denying the conciliation we are seeking |
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The reasons offered by those who affirm conciliation |
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Reasons for the author's opinion |
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| The struggle seen to exist between life instinct and attractive forces is consistent with conciliation because the opposing actions can be reduced to the same principle |
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Why animal phenomena do not appear in inorganic bodies |
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How attractive and animal forces can be reduced to one and the same principle |
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The prevalence of animal forces over attractive forces |
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| The quantity of excitation needed for the fundamental feeling in each animal |
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| Confirmation of the proposition 'The phenomena of the living body cannot be explained apart from a single sensitive principle' |
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Necessity of a single principle on which animal phenomena depend |
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The history of opinions about the single principle on which animal phenomena depend |
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| Application of the theory to explain the phenomenon of sympathy between different parts of the living body |
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What does 'sympathy' mean? |
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The intellective principle and the final causes posited by Stahl's school are excluded from the explanation |
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What kind of animal movements are we endeavouring to explain? |
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Proposition 1. |
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Proposition 2 |
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Explanation of the sympathy |
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| How The Proposed Theory Explains The Acts Of Animal Nature |
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How the Sensuous instinct disorders animal nature without diverging from its own laws |
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How the life instinct produces a painful feeling which causes a sensuous instinct to act; how this action, which upsets the normal state of the animal machine, initiates disease processes |
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| The universal cause of illness |
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The uninterrupted, external sequence of subjective and extrasubjective phenomena in the animal was considered only partially by founders of medical systems |
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All causes of illness are reducible to one |
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Health and illness depend not on the quantity but on the appropriateness or inappropriateness of stimuli |
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Continuation: the appropriateness or inappropriateness of stimuli |
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| One defect of modern medicine consists in considering illness as a 'passive condition', although it is principally an 'active condition' on a par with health |
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| Application of this theory to explain the variations in the cycle or zoic course |
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Variations in the zoic course |
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Origin of the variations in the first steps of the life instinct as it produces the fundamental feeling of continuity |
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Origin of the variations in the first steps taken by the sensuous instinct |
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Variations in the first motion received by the sensuous instinct in the power of the various conditions of the fundamental feeling of continuity |
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Variation in the motions which the sensuous instinct receives in the power of the variations taking place in the fundamental feeling of excitation |
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The degree of multiplicity in the variable elements of excitation |
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The concept of stimuli |
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The varied movement received by the sensuous instinct from the sense-experiences which in various ways constitute the fundamental feeling of excitation |
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The beginning of the zoic course as a result of external stimuli (causes of first movements), and the necessity of their continual presence |
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The variation produced by primal movements in the complex of sense-experiences which constitutes the fundamental feeling of excitation |
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(Continuation) A summary of the laws which the sensuous instinct, once aroused by the primal sense-experiences, follows in its action |
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(Continuation) The distinctive character of primal and second sense-experiences |
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(Continuation) Changes to which the fundamental feeling of continuity is susceptible must not be confused with primal sense-experiences |
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(Continuation) Variations in primal sense-experiences |
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Variations in the faculty of feeling, that is, in the faculty of undergoing sense-experiences |
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| Digression: the importance and difficulty of writing a new treatise on 'experimentation in medicine' |
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The desirable conciliation between empirical and rational doctors |
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The principal parts of a new treatise on experimentation in medicine |
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The distinction between analytical and synthetical medicine |
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Analytical medicine: its extreme difficulty in reaching conclusions by sound logic, granted the complexity of the zoic course |
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Syllogisms proper to analytical and synthetical medicine |
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The wisdom and destinies of synthetical medicine |
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| Return to and continuation of the application of the theory to explain the zoic course |
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Definition and description of second sense-experiences |
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Affection and passions relative to the zoic course |
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Animal habit relative to the zoic course |
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The weakness of the life instinct and of the sensuous instinct |
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Three kinds of weakness: physiological, simple pathological and diathetic |
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The distinction between the proximate, efficient cause of illnesses and their essence |
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All illness contains some weakness |
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The systems of stimulus and counter-stimulus |
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| Causes of weakness in animal instinct |
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The life instinct is per se a potency without assignable limits |
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Two types to which all malfunctions in animality can be reduced |
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Enumeration of the causes of weakness in animal instinct |
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First cause of weakness in
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Second cause of weakness in
animal instinct - |
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Third cause of weakness in the
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Fourth cause of weakness in the
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Fifth cause of weakness in the
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Sixth cause of weakness in the
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| Application of the theory to explain the phenomena of locality in the living body |
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Physiological laws of locality |
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Pathological locality |
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Therapeutic locality |
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