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James Mark Baldwin

(1861–1934) Philosopher France

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James Mark Baldwin was a philosopher from France.

Quick Facts About James Mark Baldwin

Born: January 12, 1861
Died: November 8, 1934
Nationality: France
Profession: Philosopher
Notable works: Dictionary of philosophy and psychology, including many of the principal conceptions of ethics, logic, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, mental pathology, anthropology, biology, neurology, physiology, economics, political and social philosophy, philology, physical science, and education, and giving a terminology in English, French, German, and Italian
Spouse: Helen Hayes Green Baldwin

About James Mark Baldwin

James Mark Baldwin was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at Princeton and the University of Toronto. He made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and the theory of evolution, for example, evolutionary biology's Baldwin effect was named after him.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by James Mark Baldwin

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

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Periods

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The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

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Infancy

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The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

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Facts

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

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Definite

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Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying…

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Essentials

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Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

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Goodness

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The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence…

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Concur

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In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

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Consciousness

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In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

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Dualism

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The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

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Conscious

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Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

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Heredity

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After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

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Century

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All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge…

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Art

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The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

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Data

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Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

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Balance

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