Date of Award

5-1936

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Psychology

First Advisor

Clarence F. Whitford

Abstract

Many strange things happen in this world to add their particular bit to the general bafflement of man. Perhaps the strangest of all is the paradox of man's belief. He knows one thing in that heart of his and yet to all external appearances believes another. It is his prerogative to believe what he will but it is distressing that there is such great diversity of opinion concerning the very thing that is the ultimate principle and source of his ability to believe. Experience tells him that he has the enviable functions of thinking, feeling and willing but his experience cannot postulate the last source of such functions. The only fact that is self-evident to him is that he exists, that he can think, feel, and will. It is reasonable then that the question whether there is such a last source or soul should lntrigue him. The term "soul" is used at present to mean the last source of thinking, feeling and willing.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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