The source of justice is the will of God, and human’s awareness of moral law derives from one’s understanding of nature of humans and their environment. Ultimately, the command (imperium) of God’s law is intellectual, stemming from the divine wisdom. The sense give us only a mediated knowledge of the external World and of ourselves. However, we can obtain an immediate, fully adequate knowledge of our own mental acts by means of inner perception. Starting from this perception, we infer the inner nature of other beings by analogy with our own. The result of this inference is a picture of reality as containing an uninterrupted series of minds or faculties of representation, extending downward from human. The soul consists of a system of powers or forces; it is a bundle but, not a bundle of perceptions. The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside did not indicate or promise, and which the other kind could not detect. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5

The art of reading the inner human nature by the outer aspect is of immeasurable interest and boundless practical value, and the individual who can practice it skillfully and apply it sagaciously is on the high road to fortune. All psychological processes can be traced back to four basic ones: The process of stimulus appropriation causes the mind to create sensations and perceptions out of externally caused impressions. The process of formation of new elementary faculties by means of assimilation of received stimuli; the process of transmission and equalization of stimuli and powers, where by a systematic connection is formed between becoming unconscious of another idea; and the process of mutual attraction and blending of ideas of the same sort. Our memories, on the other hand, are unconscious in themselves; those that are most deeply impressed form no exception. They can be made conscious, but there is no doubt that they unfold all their activities in the unconscious state. What we term our character is based, indeed, on the memory-traces of our impression, and it is precisely those impressions that have affected us most strongly, those of our early youth, which hardly ever become conscious. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5

However, when memories become conscious again, they show no sensory quality, or a very negligible one in comparison with the perceptions. If, now, it can be confirmed in the systems, we have gained the most promising insight into the neuron excitations. The consciousness occurs actually in the locality of the memory-trace. The brain is complex and dynamic. The timescales range from the flickering of channels (less than a millisecond) to long-term memory (years). Our own soul is the only thing that we know as it is in itself. We recognize nonspatial and therefore an immaterial entity. At least we have no reason to suppose it to be material, since it is not perceived through the outer sense. However, the soul cannot be simple. It has specific powers or capacities for receiving and organizing stimuli; these powers must be underivative, since the stimuli of different kinds can be received even at the outset of our experience. Each or our senses is supposed to include several of these Urvermogen (a primal capability that makes for the possibility of any kind of experience whatsoever), in order to be receptive to new sorts of stimuli. Thus, the conceived mental life is compounded of active impulses (Triebe) that are activated by external stimuli.   #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5

The seemingly substantial unity of mind is explained by the persistence of traces (Spuren) of idea that have become unconscious and by the mutual adjustment of faculties that produce new impulses. Philosophical thinking is sustained by an alien, unlogical power: phantasy, by virtue of which it is able to leap from possibility to possibility. Philosophers unit mythical powers, as well as features of the saint and the scientist, in one person. It is believed that ancient philosophers were able to come up with such deep thoughts and advanced ideas because they were a reflection of the World and God would transform himself into other bodies and speaks out of them—and was able to project this transformation to the outside in written verses. The stronger the roots of a human being’s innermost nature, the more one will appropriate and arrogate to oneself; and for the most powerful tremendous nature there would be no limit to the historical sense…it would draw to itself and take in the entire past, its own and the most foreign, and as it were transform it into blood. Just as we are the result of earlier generations, we are also the result of their aberrations, passions, and errors, and even their accomplishments; it is not possible wholly to free oneself from this chain.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5

Since a part of our inheritance as human beings is baneful, some historical knowledge is necessary of combating it: it is a truism of depth psychology that what remains unconscious is on that account difficult, if not impossible, to guard against. With two (or more) natures contending in the soul, one has recourse to the several practices to the cultivation of training, disciplining, and breeding of human beings. The good action is infused with eros, when things are seen with the penetrating power of love, even if the deeper vision is at the expense of the broader. People who have elected to govern their lives by principles of abstract right and reason, which happen, perhaps, to be at variance with what society consider equally right and reasonable, should, for fear of complications, be careful about descending from their lofty heights of logic to the common level of impulse and affection. There is reason in your words, for they are bottomed on religion and honesty. Once a spirit of emulation is inspired, great things are accomplished. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5