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A Thematic Compilation
The Thematic Compilations are collections of essays on a specified topic drawn from Avi Sion’s past works.
Ethics
Ethics is a collection of thoughts on the method, form and content of Ethics. This book is a thematic compilation drawn from past works by the author, over a period of thirteen years. The essays are placed in chronological order.
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Chapter One – On the Concept of Mitzvah |
Drawn from Judaic Logic (1995), chapter 13. |
1. Basic Properties |
2. Complementary Factors |
3. How to Count Mitzvot |
4. Commanded vs. Personal Morality |
Drawn from Buddhist Illogic 2002), chapter 9. |
1. Karmic Law Denied |
2. Empirical Observations |
3. Inductive Conclusions |
Chapter Three |
Drawn from Phenomenology (2003), chapter 9 (section 4) and appendix 2. |
1. Harmonizing Justice and Mercy |
2. Feelings of Emptiness |
Chapter Four – Further Analysis of Volition |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 3. |
1. Knowledge of Volition |
2. Freedom of the Will |
3. Decision and Choice |
4. Goals and Means |
Chapter Five – Consciousness and Responsibility |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 4. |
1. The Consciousness in Volition |
2. The Factors of Responsibility |
3. Judging, and Misjudging, People |
Chapter Six – Influence and Freedom |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 5. |
1. Influence Occurs via Consciousness |
2. Knowledge of Effort, Influence and Freedom |
3. Formal Analysis of Influence |
4. Incitement |
Chapter Seven – Further Analysis of Influence |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 6. |
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 |
Chapter Eight |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 8 (sections 2 & 3). |
1. Volition and Biology |
2. Therapeutic Psychology |
Chapter Nine – Will, Velleity and Whim |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 9. |
1. Cognition, Volition and Valuation |
2. Velleity |
3. Whim |
4. Inner Divisions |
Chapter Ten – Affections and Appetites |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 10. |
1. Valuation |
2. The Main Valuations |
3. Ethology |
Chapter Eleven – Complications of Influence |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 11. |
1. Habits |
2. Obsessions and Compulsions |
3. The Ego Abhors a Vacuum |
Chapter Twelve – Urges and Impulses |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 12. |
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 |
Chapter Thirteen – The Quasi-Purposive in Nature |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 13. |
1. Purposiveness |
2. Organic Functions |
3. The Continuity of Life |
Chapter Fourteen – More about Evolution |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 15 (sections 1 & 2). |
1. Social Darwinism |
2. Spiritual Darwinism |
Chapter Fifteen – Some Topics in Deontology |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 17. |
1. Founding Ethics |
2. Ethics Concerns the Living, Thinking, Willing |
3. Conscience and Conformism |
4. Tai Chi, Karma Yoga and Faith |
Chapter Sixteen – More Topics in Deontology |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 18. |
1. Inducing Ethics |
2. Ethical Formulas |
3. Philosophy of Law |
Chapter Seventeen |
Drawn from Ruminations (2005), chapter 8 (sections 8 & 9). |
1. Against Kant on Freewill |
2. Alleged Influences |
Chapter Eighteen |
1. The Goals of Meditation |
2. The Individual Self in Monism |
Chapter Nineteen |
Drawn from Meditations (2006), chapter 12, chapter 13 & chapter 14. |
1. Distinguishing the Ego |
2. Dismissing the Ego |
3. Relief from Suffering |
Chapter Twenty |
Drawn from Meditations (2006), chapter 15 & chapter 16. |
1. Taking Up the Challenge |
2. Face Facts with Equanimity |
Chapter Twenty-One |
Drawn from Meditations (2006), chapter 17, chapter 18 & chapter 19. |
1. Stop Substance Addictions |
2. Don’t Stuff Yourself Silly |
3. Limit Input from the Media |
Chapter Twenty-Two |
Drawn from Meditations (2006), chapter 20, chapter 21 & chapter 22. |
1. Forget Your Face |
2. Give Up Sensuality |
2. On “Sexual Liberation” |
Chapter Twenty-Three – Practice non-attachment |
Drawn from Meditations (2006), chapter 23. |
1. Attachment |
2. Non-attachment |
3. Wise Moderation |
Chapter Twenty-Four |
Drawn from Logical and Spiritual Reflections (2008), Hume’s Problems with Induction, chapter 6 & chapter 7 and addendum 2. |
1. Freewill |
2. The Is-Ought Dichotomy |
| 3. The Standards of Ethics |
Chapter Twenty-Five |
Drawn from Logical and Spiritual Reflections (2008), In Defense of Aristotle’s Laws of Thought, chapter 20 & chapter 21. |
1. The Laws of Thought in Meditation |
2. Reason and Spirituality |
Chapter Twenty-Six |
Drawn from Logical and Spiritual Reflections (2008), More Meditations, chapter 6 & chapter 9. |
1. Mental Health |
2. Transcending Suffering and Karma |
Chapter Twenty-Seven |
Drawn from Logical and Spiritual Reflections (2008), Zen Judaism, chapter 8, chapter 9 & chapter 10. |
1. Enlightenment Without Idolatry |
2. Good People |
3. A World of Mercy |
Chapter Twenty-Eight |
Drawn from Logical and Spiritual Reflections (2008), Zen Judaism, chapter 11, chapter 12 & chapter 13. |
1. Understanding Injustice |
2. Forgiveness |
3. Actions and Reactions |