The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 33
... original hypothesis degeneration had gradually become obsolete . Initially , in Morel's version , degeneration covered mental disturbances transmissible leading to progressive degradation in successive generations : " Degenerations are ...
... original hypothesis degeneration had gradually become obsolete . Initially , in Morel's version , degeneration covered mental disturbances transmissible leading to progressive degradation in successive generations : " Degenerations are ...
Page 120
... original unseparateness of person and world . It is this original unseparateness of person and world that constitutes both modes of communication , which are indi- cated as feeling , perceiving ( empfinden ) and as cognition ( un ...
... original unseparateness of person and world . It is this original unseparateness of person and world that constitutes both modes of communication , which are indi- cated as feeling , perceiving ( empfinden ) and as cognition ( un ...
Page 121
... original mode of being - human : " The original , however , is not the initial but that which is of all time , primary and eternal " . ** This is the source of love and faith . It is the expansive mode of existence of the departure into ...
... original mode of being - human : " The original , however , is not the initial but that which is of all time , primary and eternal " . ** This is the source of love and faith . It is the expansive mode of existence of the departure into ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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