Psychology applied to the art of teaching / by Joseph Baldwin ; with an introduction by James Gibson Hume . ut also of self feeling these sensations. 1. Mental Phenomena,—I think ; I perceive my-self thinking. I grieve; Iperceive myself choose ; I perceive myselfchoosing. I am aware ofmy own acts; I perceivemyself acting. Phenomenaare appearances. My men-tal acts appear to me, andhence are termed mentalphenomena. Self is awareof his own acts as his own ;awareness can go no further, 2. Self-percei:)t{on. Thisis the native energy to gainself-ideas. I assimilate myawareness into self-n
Psychology applied to the art of teaching / by Joseph Baldwin ; with an introduction by James Gibson Hume . ut also of self feeling these sensations. 1. Mental Phenomena,—I think ; I perceive my-self thinking. I grieve; Iperceive myself choose ; I perceive myselfchoosing. I am aware ofmy own acts; I perceivemyself acting. Phenomenaare appearances. My men-tal acts appear to me, andhence are termed mentalphenomena. Self is awareof his own acts as his own ;awareness can go no further, 2. Self-percei:)t{on. Thisis the native energy to gainself-ideas. I assimilate myawareness into self-notionsjust as I assimilate my sen-sations into is known asself-intuition, self-conscious-ness, inner-perception, introspection, and conscious-per-ception. 3. Self - i^ercepts are notions of particular mentalacts. They are the ideas self gains intuitively of hisknowing, feeling, and willing. I desire to visit notion I gain of self feeling tins desire is aself-idea, a self-intuition, a self-percept. Notions ofindividual mental acts and notions of the capabilities. IMPORTANCE OF THE CULTURE OF SELF-PERCEPTION. 65 to do these acts, gained by introspection, are self-per-cepts. 4. Education ofself-^ercejption is the developmentof tlie power to gain self-ideas. The child is dimlyaware, but the illuminated mental economy is an openbook to the man. Education makes the difference be-tween the feeble, glimmering consciousness of our earlyyears and the clear self-consciousness of maturity. 5. Relations of self-perception. Attention, mem-ory, and awareness enter into every distinct mental act,and hence are called our general mental powers. Thusself is able to weave into unity the experience of a longlife. I perceive the storm ; I attend, recall other storms,feel emotions of sublimity, think of God, am aware ofeach of these acts. Asleep or awake, I am aware in somedegree of my own acts. Soinelioio I assimilate my aware-ness, immediate and recalled, i
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