| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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