The Mind in the Making

By Robinson, James Harvey

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Title:	The Mind in the Making
Author:	Robinson, James Harvey
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Preface: This is an essay?not a treatise?on the most important of all matters of human concern. Although it has cost its author a great deal more thought and labor than will be apparent, it falls, in his estimation, far below the demands of its implacably urgent theme. Each page could readily be expanded into a volume. It suggests but the beginning of the beginning now being made to raise men?s thinking onto a plain which may perhaps enable them to fend off or reduce some of the dangers which lurk on every hand. J. H. R. NEW SCHOOL For SOCIAL RESEARCH, NEW YORK CITY, August, 1921. The MIND IN THE MAKING 1. ON THE PURPOSE OF THIS VOLUME. 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 to?day. 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.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Mind in the Making, 1 -- James Harvey Robinson, 1 -- I, 2 -- Preface, 2 -- THE MIND IN THE MAKING, 2 -- 1. ON THE PURPOSE OF THIS VOLUME, 2 -- 2. THREE DISAPPOINTED METHODS OF REFORM, 6 -- II, 10 -- 3. ON VARIOUS KINDS OF THINKING, 10 -- 4. RATIONALIZING, 12 -- 5. HOW CREATIVE THOUGHT TRANSFORMS THE WORLD, 14 -- III, 19 -- 6. OUR ANIMAL HERITAGE. THE NATURE OF CIVILIZATION, 19 -- 7. OUR SAVAGE MIND, 24 -- IV, 28 -- 8. BEGINNING OF CRITICAL THINKING, 28 -- 9. INFLUENCE OF PLATO AND ARISTOTLE, 31 -- V, 33 -- 10. ORIGIN OF THE MEDIAEVAL CIVILIZATION, 33 -- 11. OUR MEDIAEVAL INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE, 35 -- VI, 42 -- 12. THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, 42 -- 13. HOW SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE HAS REVOLUTIONIZED THE CONDITIONS OF -- LIFE, 44 -- VII, 47 -- 14. ?THE SICKNESS OF AN ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY?, 47 -- 15. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SAFETY AND SANITY, 50 -- VIII, 55 -- 16. SOME HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF REPRESSION, 55 -- 17. WHAT OF IT?, 59 -- APPENDIX, 65 -- The Mind in the Making -- i





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