First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Autorentext
F. Alverdes
Klappentext
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Zusammenfassung
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 Difference between living and non-living nature.-The "End" (aim, object, purpose, goal) and the "Whole" as biological fictions.-"The End determines the Means", and "the Whole determines the Parts"; Chapter 2 General remarks on scientific statement, and more concerning the fictional mode of regarding biological facts.-Consciousness, freedom of will, psyche; Chapter 3 Individuality-the ciliated slipper-animalcule (Paramecium) as individual; Chapter 4 More concerning the individuality of animals possessing numerous like organs of locomotion.-The free-swimming Turbellaria and Starfish; Chapter 5 The individuality of jointed animals, annelids, and arthropods.-The supposed antagonism between the right and left side of the body.-Theories of tropism, and the theory of tropotaxis; Chapter 6 Understanding and explaining.-The attempt at sympathetic understanding of animal behaviour.-Intra-central orientation and disorientation of animals.-Comparative physiology of the senses and nerves in animal psychology; Chapter 7 The animal's grasp of wholes.-Super-individual wholes; Chapter 8 Primary and secondary knowledge.-Instinctive and experiential activity; Chapter 9 Instinct and experience in human beings.-Behaviour indicating insight in man and animals; Chapter 10 Animal sociology.-Superindividual wholes: marriage, family, society, in man and animals; Chapter 11 Spontaneity and attention.-Understanding and communication.-Emotion and emotional transference.-Personal familiarity.-The will to superiority; Chapter 12 The human being as investigating subject, and object of investigation;