ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. In Laurens Perseus Hickok introduction to Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, the translator recognized that this volume 'is generally referred to as Kant's work in empirical psychology'. The book on anthropology subtitled 'The Connections of Mind and Body', which was a condensed version of Kant's position. In common with many more recent introductory textbooks, Hickok covered methods. It imploring the student to be attentive of single facts, 'to compare facts with one another and find their true relations', and to analyze complex facts carefully. The book describes the 'General Facts of Mind'. Mind 'permanently is, in its unchanged identity. It identifies 'The Primitive Facts of Mind', which 'must precede all conscious activity, no awakening in self-consciousness would be possible'. Laurens Perseus Hickok anticipated the psychological school of structuralism in his evaluation of the potential values and difficulties of the introspective method.
