Ethology (Classic Reprint): Standpoint, Method, Tentative Results: Standpoint, Method, Tentative Results (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Uncover how philosophy and science meet in the study of character, and what this means for education and life.

This book presents a view of ethology as a study of character formation, linking philosophical insight with empirical methods. It argues that true ethology must engage with metaphysical questions and religious conscience while remaining scientifically sympathetic and critical. The work lays out a standpoint that character is the central, self-creating reality, and that education develops habit, nurture, and aptitude within a communal sense of self.

• Grounded starting point: the idea that unitary characters are the basic data of ethology, and that matter or consciousness are meaningful only through character relationships.
• A working hypothesis: biological development, differentiation, and integration shape character, with higher instincts arising from lower ones.
• Character stages and lines: habit, spontaneity, custom, law, and the college-phase shift toward broader scientific study.
• The role of philosophy and religion: these "postulates" help frame empirical study without reducing it to naturalistic mechanics.

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