The Emotions and the Will

1875. This edition contains both Part I and II of this volume. Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher and educationalist, was an early proponent of scientific psychology. Along with his friend, John Stuart Mill, Bain was a major proponent of the British school of empiricism: a theory which based all knowledge on basic sensory experiences and not on introspection. Bain's philosophical and scientific writings were completed during his twenty years as a professor at Aberdeen. Contents: The Emotions-Of Feeling in General; Evolution, as Applied to Mind; The Emotions and Their Classification; Emotions of Relativity; Ideal Emotion; Sympathy; Tender Emotion; Emotion of Fear; Emotion of Anger; Emotion of Power; Emotions of Self; Emotions of Intellect; Emotions of Action-Pursuit; The Aesthetic Emotions; The Ethical Emotions: or the Moral Sense; The Will-The Primitive Elements of Volition; Growth of Voluntary Power; Control of Feelings and Thoughts; Motives or Ends; The Conflict of Motives; Deliberation-Resolution-Effort; Desire; The Moral Habits; Prudence-Duty-Moral Inability; and Liberty and Necessity. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.