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" The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most 'voluntary' ', is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind. "
The American Journal of Psychology - Página 288
editado por - 1909
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Mind, Volumen4

1895 - 580 páginas
...implies *." " The essential achievement of the will," he assures us, "when it is most 'voluntary', is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind": this "is the fiat" of the will*. And writers of different schools seem to reach substantially the same...
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Psychology

William James - 1892 - 510 páginas
...of volition implies. The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most 'voluntary,' is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind. The so-doing is the fiat; and it is a mere physiological incident that when the object is thus attended...
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Seeing and Being: And Other Sermons

John White Chadwick - 1893 - 264 páginas
...Then is the time and place for that "essential achievement of the will when it is most voluntary, — to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind." "A moment's thought is passion's passing knell." " When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth replies,...
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The Monist, Volumen4

Paul Carus - 1894 - 698 páginas
...means to a desired end, I deny its voluntary character. When Professor James says, as already quoted, that "the essential achievement of the will ... is...difficult object and hold it fast before the mind," it is evident that the object to which he refers is not the action itself, but its consequences. When...
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Psychology in Education; Designed as a Text-book, and for the Use of the ...

Ruric Nevel Roark - 1895 - 324 páginas
...determining and executing — in the one function of attending. He says, "The essential achievement of will is to attend to a difficult object, and hold it fast before the mind ; " and again, " Effort of attention is thus the essential phenomenon of will." A legitimate inference from...
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The Gospel for an Age of Doubt: The Yale Lectures on Preaching, 1866

Henry Van Dyke - 1896 - 484 páginas
...Mifflin & Co., 1S89), chap. xiv. 1 "The essential achievement of the will when it is most ' voluntary,' is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind." — JAMKS, Psychology, vol. ii., p. 561. 2 St. John xiv. 1. 3 St. John vi. 47. 4 St. Mark is. 23. soul...
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The gospel for an age of doubt. Yale lects. on preaching

Henry Jackson Van Dyke - 1896 - 514 páginas
...Mifflin & Co., 1889), chap. xiv. 1 "The essential achievement of the will when it is most ' voluntary,' is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind." — JAMES, Psychology, vol. ii.,'p. 561. 2 St. John xiv. 1. 3 St. John vi. 47. « St. Mark ix. 23....
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The Will, Its Structure and Mode of Action

James Edwin Creighton - 1898 - 96 páginas
...case of volition implies. The essential achievement of the will in short, when it is most voluntary, is to attend to a difficult object, and hold it fast before the mind."* Notwithstanding this excellent statement, however, the tendency of James's analysis is to make too...
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The Will, Its Structure and Mode of Action

James Edwin Creighton - 1898 - 98 páginas
...case of volition implies. The essential achievement of the will in short, when it is most voluntary, is to attend to a difficult object, and hold it fast before the mind."* Notwithstanding this excellent statement, however, the tendency of James's analysis is to make too...
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The Natural Way in Moral Training: Four Modes of Nurture

Patterson Du Bois - 1903 - 350 páginas
...it. "The essential achievement of the will," says James,1 " in short, when it is most ' voluntary,' is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind. The so-doing is the fiat; and it is a mere physiological incident that when the object is thus attended...
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