Samuel Alexander's Death
Born (Birthday) January 6, 1859
Death Date September 13, 1938
Age of Death 79 years
Cause of Death N/A
Profession Philosopher
The philosopher Samuel Alexander died at the age of 79. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Australian philosopher who was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college and published the 1933 popular essay Beauty and other Forms of Value.
He was born the third son of Samuel Alexander who worked as a saddler and Eliza née Sloman.
Quotes
"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
"We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.