The Pyschologic System

 

According to Garmo (1898) the second part of the Psychologic Foundations of Education, titled the Psychologic System, uncovers the way self-activity unfolds and passes through the stages of feeling, sensation, recollection and memory, conception and reason, then culminating in the will and embracing the proceeding processes in itself. Self-activity rises to the top of the hierarchy and looks down upon them to consult, guide, and control the other processes Garmo (1898).

The second part is “An Attempt to Show the Genesis of the Higher Faculties of the Mind.” The lower faculties function to produce the higher. According to Garmo (1898) “A protest is made against inventory psychology together with its concurrent doctrine of harmonious development, as a guide to education.” For Harris this doctrine ignores the start of higher faculties from the lower faculties arresting mental development.

            Being is positive only after it has is negated itself. Being is a positive thing and a self-related negative thing. Harris discusses each of the three stages of self-activity, or Being, talked of by Plato and Spinoza with his own view of being (Harris 1867).