Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV THE MEANING OF LIFE Life is a warfare and the sojourn of a stranger.--Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts, ii, 17. Not to look onwards to the ideal life of man is to deny our birthright of mind.--Jbffbries, Pageant of Summer. Adjustment has two sides. In one respect, it relates to the modification effected in the individual in order to suit itself to the external conditions of its environment. In the other respect it relates to the modifications effected in the environment to suit it to the individual.--Harris, Preface, p. vif in Judd, Genetic Psychology for Teachers. The only thing that is good is the Living Love that wills the blessedness of others. This is the true Good-in-itself, sought by all men. All things else--resolves, sentiments, actions, tendencies--share with this only derivatively the name of Good. Neither a realm of Truth nor a realm of Worth is prior as the initial reality. To finite cognition, the one unfolding movement of this reality appears in the three aspects of the good that is its end, the constructive impulse by which this end is attained, and the conformity to law that keeps the impulse in the path to that end. All the moral commands that, as sharply defined maxims, attract our attention are but a mechanism devised for its own realization by Creative Love. To this mechanism belong the universal, the class, and the state of things, --mere schemes for the establishment of truth and of order. Where we cannot reconcile the goodness and the omnipotence of God, there our finite intelligence hascocne to the limit of its tether; yet we may believe a solution exists, though we may not understand it. The true reality is and forever ought to be not Matter, and still less Idea, but the living personal spirit of God and the..We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Theory of Motives, Ideals, and Values in Education. To get started finding A Theory of Motives, Ideals, and Values in Education, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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A Theory of Motives, Ideals, and Values in Education
Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV THE MEANING OF LIFE Life is a warfare and the sojourn of a stranger.--Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts, ii, 17. Not to look onwards to the ideal life of man is to deny our birthright of mind.--Jbffbries, Pageant of Summer. Adjustment has two sides. In one respect, it relates to the modification effected in the individual in order to suit itself to the external conditions of its environment. In the other respect it relates to the modifications effected in the environment to suit it to the individual.--Harris, Preface, p. vif in Judd, Genetic Psychology for Teachers. The only thing that is good is the Living Love that wills the blessedness of others. This is the true Good-in-itself, sought by all men. All things else--resolves, sentiments, actions, tendencies--share with this only derivatively the name of Good. Neither a realm of Truth nor a realm of Worth is prior as the initial reality. To finite cognition, the one unfolding movement of this reality appears in the three aspects of the good that is its end, the constructive impulse by which this end is attained, and the conformity to law that keeps the impulse in the path to that end. All the moral commands that, as sharply defined maxims, attract our attention are but a mechanism devised for its own realization by Creative Love. To this mechanism belong the universal, the class, and the state of things, --mere schemes for the establishment of truth and of order. Where we cannot reconcile the goodness and the omnipotence of God, there our finite intelligence hascocne to the limit of its tether; yet we may believe a solution exists, though we may not understand it. The true reality is and forever ought to be not Matter, and still less Idea, but the living personal spirit of God and the..We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Theory of Motives, Ideals, and Values in Education. To get started finding A Theory of Motives, Ideals, and Values in Education, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.