Hierarchy Index Cards - J
James
Card-J-04-02. DH: “We need sympathy also for our past selves. The reformed rake, the ex-communist, the convert to whatever creed, is just as blind to the feeling, the joy, & the inwardness of his past selves as he is to the selves of his present opponent.”
Apparent Size & Real Size
Card-J-04-06. Reading James: Textbook of Psychology.
DH: “James’ description is a good example of the necessarily exterior method of science. (For the present; Science must eventually become psychological all the way down & up.”
Card-J-04-09. Reading James: Textbook of Psychology
DH: “Note that error is relative to status. If you are essentially a Social being it is an error to go by your private view & to fail to take the public view. But objects do not keep their sizes. Objects have sizes for selves. When we say objects keep their sizes we mean: I take up the viewpoint of, & I become, the Self for whom these objects do not change in size.”
Index Card J-04
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