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VOLITION
and Allied Causal Concepts
©
Avi Sion, 2004. All rights reserved.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS.
Abstract
1. BASIC CAUSAL RELATIONS
1. Causation and volition
2. Causality and modality
3. Spontaneity
4. Relative vs. absolute contingency
2.
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN VOLITION AND CAUSATION
1.
Necessity and inertia in causation
2.
Direct and indirect volition
3.
Matter-mind and spirit
4.
Conceiving Divine volition
5.
The study of volition
3.
FURTHER ANALYSIS OF VOLITION
1.
Knowledge of volition
2.
Freedom of the will
3.
Decision and choice
4.
Goals and means
4.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND RESPONSIBILITY
1.
The consciousness in volition
2.
The factors of responsibility
3.
Judging, and misjudging, people
5.
INFLUENCE AND FREEDOM
1.
Influence occurs via consciousness
2.
Knowledge of effort, influence and freedom
3.
Formal analysis of influence
4.
Incitement
6.
FURTHER ANALYSIS OF INFLUENCE
1.
Some features of influence
2.
Processes of influence
3.
Instincts in relation to freewill
4.
Liberation from unwanted influences
5.
Propositions about the future
1.
Cultural context and epistemological considerations
2.
Theoretical context
3.
Stages in the process of volition
4.
The scope of freewill
8.
VOLITION AND THE SPECIAL SCIENCES
1.
Volition and the laws of physics
2.
Volition and biology
3.
Therapeutic psychology
9.
WILL, VELLEITY AND WHIM
1.
Cognition, volition and valuation
2.
Velleity
3.
Whim
4.
Inner divisions
10.
AFFECTIONS AND APPETITES
1.
Valuation
2.
The main valuations
3.
Ethology
11.
COMPLICATIONS OF INFLUENCE
1.
Habits
2.
Obsessions and compulsions
3.
The ego abhors a vacuum
12.
URGES AND IMPULSES
1. Physical urges and
impulses
2. Mental urges and
impulses
3. Formal analysis of
physical and mental urges
4. Are there drives
within the soul?
5. Formal analysis of
spiritual urges
13.
THE QUASI-PURPOSIVE IN NATURE
1.
Purposiveness
2.
Organic functions
3.
The continuity of life
14.
CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION
1.
The logical form of evolution
2.
Evidence for evolution
3.
Random mutation
4.
Natural selection
15.
MORE ABOUT EVOLUTION
1.
Social Darwinism
2.
Spiritual Darwinism
3.
Theological perspectives
16.
THE SELF
1.
Ungluing the mind
2.
Abstract vs. concrete self
3.
Sundry reflections on the soul and God
17.
SOME TOPICS IN DEONTOLOGY
1.
Founding ethics
2.
Ethics concerns the living, thinking, willing
3.
Conscience and conformism
4.
Tai Chi, karma yoga and faith
18.
MORE TOPICS IN DEONTOLOGY
1.
Inducing ethics
2.
Ethical formulas
3.
Philosophy of law
APPENDIXES
1.
Some formal logic guidelines
2.
Aristotle’s four causes
REFERENCES
About "Causal
Logic"
See also: Ruminations, chapter 8.
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