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Page 253
Components are built into ever more complex totalities , but the totalities give a
special function to those individual parts which are caught within the functioning
unit of the whole . Even the individual card in a card house depends for its
function ...
Components are built into ever more complex totalities , but the totalities give a
special function to those individual parts which are caught within the functioning
unit of the whole . Even the individual card in a card house depends for its
function ...
Page 255
... Form , we can see reappearing at all the levels , from that of the crystal to that
of culture , the basic problems of the relation between time - space form on the
one hand , and the world of function , self - realization , and purpose on the other
.
... Form , we can see reappearing at all the levels , from that of the crystal to that
of culture , the basic problems of the relation between time - space form on the
one hand , and the world of function , self - realization , and purpose on the other
.
Page 298
If , however , our concern is with the biology , the physics and the chemistry of
man's frame and function , and with that psychophysiological function which we
call his mind , self , or personality , the attempt could be made to find the nature of
...
If , however , our concern is with the biology , the physics and the chemistry of
man's frame and function , and with that psychophysiological function which we
call his mind , self , or personality , the attempt could be made to find the nature of
...
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Contents
Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Human Potentialities Kurt Lerwin Memorial Lectures / Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues ; 1953 |
| Author | Gardner Murphy |
| Contributors | Basic Books (Firm)., Kaplan Archives, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 1958 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 340 pages |
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