The Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought

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Notes CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 1. T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” in A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry, ed. Oscar Williams (New York: Scribners, 1952), p. 29. 2. Keith Ward, Religion and Human Nature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 1–9. 3. Ibid., p. 1. 4. For a detailed presentation of the Yoga view, see my Yoga and Psychology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002). 5. Ward, Religion and Human Nature, p. 3. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid., p. 4. 8. Ibid., p. 8. CHAPTER 2. PERFECTIBILITY IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY 1. John Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970), p. 11. 2. Ibid., p. 13. 3. Ibid., p. 18. 4. As quoted by Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 18. 5. Augustine, The City of God, trans. Gerald Walsh et al. and abridged by Vernon Bourke (New York: Image Books, 1958), bk. 11, p. 217. 6. Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 19. 7. Ibid., p. 20. 8. Ibid. 9. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans. H. J. Paton (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1956), p. 76. 10. As quoted by Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 23. 11. Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 23. 12. Ibid., p. 25. 13. Ibid., p. 27. 195 14. Ibid., p. 147. 15. Ibid., p. 149. 16. Ibid., p. 150. 17. Ibid. 18. New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed. s.v. “Locke, John.” 19. Gordon Allport, Becoming (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955), p. 7. 20. As stated by Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 161. 21. Ibid., p. 163. 22. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards (New York: Macmillan, 1972), s.v. “Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.” 23. As quoted by Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 178. 24. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, s.v. “Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.” 25. Ibid. 26. Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 180. 27. Ibid., p. 173. 28. Ibid., p. 174. 29. Ibid., p. 193. 30. As stated by Erich Fromm in Marx’s Concept of Man (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1966), p. 26. 31. Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 236. 32. Ibid., p. 237. 33. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, s.v. “Marx, Karl.” 34. Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 238. 35. Ibid., p. 187. 36. Ibid., p. 189. 37. Gordon Allport, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955), p. 8. 38. Ibid., p. 9. 39. Edwin Boring, A History of Experimental Psychology (New York: AppletonCentury -Crofts, 1950), p. 644. 40. Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 168. 41. Boring, History of Experimental Psychology, p. 650. 42. B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (New York: Macmillan, 1962), p. 194. 43. B. F. Skinner, “A Case History in Scientific Method,” in Psychology: A Study of a Science, ed. Sigmund Koch (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959), 2: 378. 44. Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 169. 45. Allport, Becoming, pp. 12ff. 46. Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 215. 47. Kant, as quoted by ibid., p. 216. 48. Ibid. 49. Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, trans. Theodore M. Greene and Hoyt Hudson (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1960), pp. 46–47. 50. Boring, History of Experimental Psychology, p. 334. 51. Ibid., pp. 356–61. 196 Notes to Chapter 2 52. Calvin S. Hall, A Primer of Freudian Psychology (New York: Mentor, 1958), p. 37. 53. Sigmund Freud, “Beyond the Pleasure Principle,” trans. J. Strachey in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, ed, J. Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1957), 18: 42. 54. Passmore, Perfectibility of Man, p. 291. 55. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, trans. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1975). 56. C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, ed. Anelia Jaffe (New York: Vintage Books, 1963), p. 161. 57. C. G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, trans. R. F. C. Hull (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969). 58. See Harold Coward, Yoga and Psychology: Language, Memory and Mysticism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), pp. 73 ff. 59. C. G. Jung, Psychological Types, trans. R. F. C. Hull (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971), pp. 10–11. 60. C. G. Jung, Letters, ed. G. Adler (London: Routledge, 1973), 1: 236. 61. Allport, Becoming, p. 90. See also Harold Coward, Jung and Eastern Thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985). 62. William James, Psychology (New York: Henry Holt, 1893), pp. 151ff. 63. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience...