Chapter II: Part I: Primary Aspects of Organization

CHAPTER I

SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL ASPECTS OF MIND

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Mind an Organic Whole—Conscious and Unconscious Relations—Does
Self-Consciousness Come First? _Cogito, Ergo Sum_—The
Larger Introspection—Self-Consciousness in Children—Public
Consciousness 3

CHAPTER II

SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL ASPECTS OF MIND—(CONTINUED)

Moral Aspect of the Organic View—It Implies that Reform
Should Be Based on Sympathy—Uses of Praise and Blame—Responsibility
Broadened but Not Lost—Moral Value of
a Larger View—Organic Morality Calls for Knowledge—Nature
of Social Organization 13

CHAPTER III

PRIMARY GROUPS

Meaning of Primary Groups—Family, Playground, and Neighborhood—How
Far Influenced by Larger Society—Meaning
and Permanence of “Human Nature”—Primary Groups the
Nursery of Human Nature 23

CHAPTER IV

PRIMARY IDEALS

Nature of Primary Idealism—The Ideal of a “We” or Moral
Unity—It Does Not Exclude Self-Assertion—Ideals Springing
from Hostility—Loyalty, Truth, Service—Kindness—Lawfulness—Freedom—
The Doctrine of Natural Right—Bearing
of Primary Idealism upon Education and Philanthropy 32

CHAPTER V

THE EXTENSION OF PRIMARY IDEALS

Primary Ideals Underlie Democracy and Christianity—Why
They Are Not Achieved on a Larger Scale—What They Require
from Personality—From Social Mechanism—The
Principle of Compensation 51