Chapter Summary Of The Philosophy Of Freedom
Olin D. Wannamaker
Chapter 8 The Factors Of Life
Reviewing our steps and taking one further step, we find that the factors of the individual life consist of the following entities: the multitudinous percepts which enter consciousness; the activity of thinking, which links these percepts with concepts, which weaves a network of concepts, and which also links the individual with the universe; and two other attributes: feeling, which relates the percptual world to the individual self; and volition, through which the individual acts upon the world. But it is only as percepts that feeling and volition enter consciousness.
It is thinking alone that gives any knowledge of their real nature, as likewise of the nature of any other item in the perceptual world. The attributes of feeling and volition are subjective, limited to the subject, the self; but thinking, although appearing in connection with the self, determines the concepts of both subject and object, and is above their level, linking the human being with the universe.
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