James Mark Baldwin Quotes
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
Baldwin, James Mark. History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation. Vol. 1, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913, p. 38.
The original was in German. Spinoza was a Dutch Philosopher who originated this abstract notion of a universal God. This was one of the reasons fro his excommunication. Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Marquis de Valdegamas. He was a descendant of the conquistador, Hernando Cortez.
Much of Western society, even in the 21st century has tended to distrust logic, reasonng and emperical research unless there was some kind of philosophical, religious, ethical or idological corroberation. Often science is rejected or ignored if its results do not conform with Westrern society's traditional values. Climate change and evolution are two of the more dramatic example of the continuing influence of the transcendentalists and religious fundamentalists.
James Mark Baldwin was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at Princeton and the University of Toronto. He made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and to the theory of evolution.
