The Origins of Contemporary Psychology By Cardinal Mercier Translated By W H
The Origins of Contemporary Psychology By Cardinal Mercier Translated By W H
Dsir Mercier
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There is, however, another conception of the soul which depends upon the understanding, and which empirical psychology can turn to account as an auxiliary hypothesis. It is this: it regards the soul not as pure will without an object, but as a com- pound unity, a " spiritual organism. " This is, in fact, nothing but the living body itself. The soul and body, in virtue of this conception, do not really differ. Between the 148 CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY Thus two ways are offered to us for a trans- c...endental regression : we may either go back to the object of representation, leaving completely on one side the activity connected with the representa- tion, and thus attain to the concept of an absolute and substantial quality, immutable in itself; or else, eliminating representations as being the simple objects of this activity, we may go back to the concept of this activity itself. On the one hand, we get the idea of a soul-substance (substantieller Seelen- begriff), on the other, the idea of a soul-activity (actueller Seelenbegriff] .
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