The Unity Of The Organism Or The Organismal Conception Of Life

Author : William Emerson Ritter
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440037474
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book An Organismal Theory of Consciousness written by William Emerson Ritter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Organismal Theory of Consciousness This book is a reprint, with a few verbal changes necessitated by its mechanical isolation, of the last chapter (twenty-four), the preface, and the postscript of my larger work, The Unity of the Organism, or The Organismal Conception of Life. The title of the chapter is, Sketch of an Organismal Theory of Consciousness and I wish to emphasize the avowedly brief treatment of the subject as indicated by the term "sketch." My reason for publishing this much of The Unity as a separate book is strategical. I hope the move will contribute to the winning of earlier and wider attention to the full treatise by two groups of students especially: Philosophers who have broken away from subjectivist idealism; and physiologists who have deeply sensed the meaning of physical chemistry in its application to living beings. To win more readers for the full work is my hope. And should the thing happen which I realize is possible, to wit, the usurpation by this chapter, which is primarily hypothetical, of the place rightfully belonging to the entire book, which as a whole is quite the reverse of hypothetical, I should be chagrined indeed. But I am counting on an influence even stronger than the sense of fairness and consistency of students as a guarantee against such an outcome. It seems to me western civilization is entering on an era in which integrative conceptions and forces are going to determine the feelings, the thoughts and the acts of men much more than they have for the past three-quarters of a century. Already tendencies of this can hardly be mistaken in industry, in labor, in sociology and in government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.