The mind in the making : The relation of intelligence to social reform / James Harvey Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, James Harvey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Other Title:

mind in the making

Place of Publication:

To be supplied : Project Gutenberg, 2010.

New York : Harper & Bros, 1921.

Summary:

"If some magical transformation could be produced in men's ways of looking at themselves and their fellows, no inconsiderable part of the evils which now afflict society would vanish away or remedy themselves automatically. If the majority of influential persons held the opinions and occupied the point of view that a few rather uninfluential people now do, there would, for instance, be no likelihood of another great war; the whole problem of "labor and capital" would be transformed and attenuated; national arrogance, race animosity, political corruption, and inefficiency would all be reduced below the danger point. As an old Stoic proverb has it, men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, rather than by the things themselves. This is eminently true of many of our worst problems today. We have available knowledge and ingenuity and material resources to make a far fairer world than that in which we find ourselves, but various obstacles prevent our intelligently availing ourselves of them. The object of this book is to substantiate this proposition, to exhibit with entire frankness the tremendous difficulties that stand in the way of such a beneficent change of mind, and to point out as clearly as may be some of the measures to be taken in order to overcome them"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

On the purpose of this volume Three disappointed methods of reform On various kinds of thinking Rationalizing How creative thought transforms the world Our animal heritage, the nature of civilization Our savage mind Beginning of critical thinking Influence of Plato and Aristotle Origin of mediaeval civilization Our mediaeval intellectual inheritance Scientific revolution How scientific knowledge has revolutionized the conditions of life "The sickness of an acquisitive society" Philosophy of safety and sanity Some reflections on the philosophy of repression What of it?.

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