LSR Contents Logical and Spiritual REFLECTIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS. Contents in brief: AbstractThe parts and books:PART I: LOGICAL REFLECTIONSBook 1. Hume’s Problems with InductiBook 2. A Short Critique of Kant’s UnreasonBook 3. In Defense of Aristotle’s Laws of ThoughtPART II: SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONSBook 4.More Meditations Book 5. Zen JudaismBook 6. No to SodomAddendaReferencesContents in detail:AbstractPART I: LOGICAL REFLECTIONSBook 1. Hume’s Problems with Induction1. Hume’s “problem of induction” 2. The principle of induction 3. Causation, necessity and connection 4. The psychology of induction 5. The self or soul 6. Freewill 7. The is-ought dichotomy 8. Hempel’s paradox of confirmation 9. Goodman’s paradox of prediction 10. The induction of induction 11. Descartes’ mind-body dichotomy 12. Some further remarks on causal logicBook 2. A Short Critique of Kant’s Unreason1. Kant’s transcendental reality 2. The analytic-synthetic dichotomy 3. Theory of knowledge 4. Experience, space and time 5. Kant’s “categories” 6. Ratiocinations 7. How numbers arise 8. Geometrical logicBook 3. In Defense of Aristotle’s Laws of Thought 1. Logicians have to introspect 2. The primacy of the laws of thought 3. The ontological status of the laws 4. Fuzzy logic 5. Misrepresentation of Aristotle 6. Not on the geometrical model 7. A poisonous brew 8. The game of one-upmanship 9. In Buddhist discourse 10. Calling what is not a spade a spade 11. Buddhist causation theory 12. A formal logic of change 13. Buddhist critique of change 14. Different strata of knowledge 15. Impermanence 16. Buddhist denial of the soul 17. The status of sense perceptions 18. The status of dreams and daydreams 19. The status of conceptions 20. The laws of thought in meditation 21. Reason and spiritualityPART II: SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONSBook 4. More Meditations 1. Go directly and keep going 2. Breath and thought awareness 3. Self awareness 4. Meditation on the self 5. Various remarks on meditation 6. Mental health 7. Behold the mind 8. The four foundations and the core practice 9. Transcending suffering and karma 10. Behold the soul 11. The Buddhist no-soul theory 12. Buddhist historicity 13. About Buddhist idolatry 14. Buddhist messianism 15. Assimilating BuddhismBook 5. Zen Judaism 1. God and Creation2. Torah and faith3. Bible text and commentary4. Tradition vs. innovation5. The rabbinical estate6. Judaic illogic7. Jewish meditation8. Enlightenment without idolatry9.Good people10. A world of mercy11. Understanding injustice12. Forgiveness13. Actions and reactions Appendix 1. Round numbers in Torah statisticsAppendix 2. Prayer in uncertaintyBook 6. No to Sodom1. Picking up the gauntlet 2. Homosexuals defined 3. Homosexual tendencies 4. The biological role of sex 5. Non-reproductive sex 6. Deviance and suffering 7. Some probable causes 8. Changing rationalizations 9. It is freely chosen 10. Sensuality and perversion 11. Spiritual impurity 12. The essence of sodomy 13. A social revolution 14. The defenders and promoters of homosexuality 15. Some legal issues 16. A call for recovery 17. (ANNEX) The Rabbis must ban homosexuals from Judaism See also: Addenda to the Reflectionsincluding: Logic in Defense of Zionismand: The Chanukah Lights MiracleReferences Top Avi Sion 2016-07-15T12:09:31+00:00