Economic Motives: A Study in the Psychological Foundations of Economic Theory, with Some Reference to Other Social Sciences, Τόμος 26Harvard University Press, 1922 - 304 σελίδες |
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acquired action activity Adam Smith analysis appear appetite approval Aristotle aroused asso association associationists become behavior believe Bentham bodily calculation called chapter common complex conditioned reflex connected consciousness considered correlated course desire doctrine economic economists effect elements emotions evidence experience fact fear feeling Felicific Calculus Freudian give habits hedonism hedonist human nature ideas imagination important impulses individual innate instincts interest introspective J. S. Mill James James Mill John Mill knowledge labor learning lower animals marginal utility matter McDougall means mechanisms mental Mill mind modern moral motives neural neurons nomic object observations original passions physiological pleasant pleasure and pain possible present principles problem production psychological hedonism psychology question reactions reason responses saving sensations sense sense-organs simple situation social Social Psychology stimuli theory things thought tion tive unpleasant utilitarian Veblen wants Watson wealth whole Woodworth workmanship
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Σελίδα 55 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Σελίδα 93 - Reason labours at in vain. This too serves always, Reason never long : One must go right, the other may go wrong. See then the acting and comparing powers One in their nature, which are two in ours ! And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.
Σελίδα 215 - The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniences and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary.
Σελίδα 39 - So that in the nature of man we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation.
Σελίδα 188 - We may say, then, that, directly or indirectly, the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity ; by the conative or impulsive force of some instinct (or of some habit derived from an instinct) every train of thought, however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along towards its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained.
Σελίδα 40 - ... to govern the public better than the rest; and these strive to reform and innovate, one this way, another that way, and thereby bring it into distraction and civil war.
Σελίδα 37 - When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently. But as we have no imagination, whereof we have not formerly had sense, in whole, or in parts, so we have no transition from one imagination to another, whereof we never had the like before in our senses. The reason whereof is this. All fancies...
Σελίδα 40 - It is true, that certain living creatures, as bees, and ants, live sociably one with another, which are therefore by Aristotle numbered amongst political creatures; and yet have no other direction, than their particular judgments and appetites ; nor speech, whereby one of them can signify to another, what he thinks expedient for the common benefit: and therefore some man may perhaps desire to know, why mankind cannot do the same.