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Page 69
... activity arises , it reaches a point where it is self - maintaining and may then be continued for its own sake independently of the original instinctive energies which started it . This is the doctrine of functional autonomy . The ...
... activity arises , it reaches a point where it is self - maintaining and may then be continued for its own sake independently of the original instinctive energies which started it . This is the doctrine of functional autonomy . The ...
Page 70
... activity is something that is fun to do anyhow , some- thing that expresses the self and is thus worth making a competi- tive game out of . Canalization exemplifies that vast world of delight in sensory gratification which is ...
... activity is something that is fun to do anyhow , some- thing that expresses the self and is thus worth making a competi- tive game out of . Canalization exemplifies that vast world of delight in sensory gratification which is ...
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... activity , as is true also of the larger cosmic trends , quaintly conceived by the ancients as the " harmony of the spheres . " " 6 As we pass , moreover , to the broad dispositions which we have called " nonspecific , " it is clear ...
... activity , as is true also of the larger cosmic trends , quaintly conceived by the ancients as the " harmony of the spheres . " " 6 As we pass , moreover , to the broad dispositions which we have called " nonspecific , " it is clear ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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