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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.
The Self
The Self is an inquiry into the concepts of self, soul, person, ego, consciousness, psyche and mind – ranging over phenomenology, logic, epistemology, ontology, psychology, spirituality, meditation, ethics and metaphysics. This book is a thematic compilation drawn from past works by the author over a period of eighteen years.
Chapter One – Consciousness and the Mind |
Drawn from Future Logic (1990), chapter 61. |
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1. Consciousness is a Relation |
2. Kinds of Consciousness |
3. The Mind |
4. Popular Psychology |
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Chapter Two |
Drawn from Buddhist Illogic (2002), chapter 11 & chapter 12. |
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1. Self or Soul. |
2. Self-Knowledge. |
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Chapter Three |
Drawn from Phenomenology (2003), chapter 1 (section 3) & chapter 5 (sections 1-3, 5-6). |
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1. To Be Or Not To Be |
2. The Self |
3. Factors of the “Self” |
4. Identification-With |
5. Fallacious Criticisms of Selfhood |
6. What “Emptiness” Might Be |
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Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 7. |
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1. Cultural Context and Epistemological Considerations |
2. Theoretical Context |
3. Stages in the Process of Volition |
4. The Scope of Freewill |
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Chapter Five |
Drawn from Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), chapter 11 (section 3) & chapter 16. |
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1. The Ego Abhors a Vacuum |
2. Ungluing the Mind |
3. Abstract vs. Concrete Self |
4. Sundry Reflections on the Soul and God |
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Chapter Six |
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1. The Individual Self in Monism |
2. The Impression of Self |
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Chapter Seven |
Drawn from Meditations (2006), chapter 11, chapter 12 & chapter 13. |
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1. Not an Essence, but an Entity |
2. Distinguishing the Ego |
3. Dismissing the Ego |
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Chapter Eight |
Drawn from Logical and Spiritual Reflections (2008), Hume’s Problems with Induction, chapter 5 & chapter 11; In Defense of Aristotle’s Laws of Thought, chapter 16. |
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1. The Self or Soul |
2. Descartes’ Mind-Body Dichotomy |
3. Buddhist Denial of the Soul |
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Chapter Nine |
Drawn from Logical and Spiritual Reflections (2008), More Meditations, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 7, chapter 10 & chapter 11; Zen Judaism, chapter 8 (part). |
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1. Self Awareness |
2. Meditation on the Self |
3. Behold the Mind |
4. The Buddhist No-Soul Theory |
5. Self and Enlightenment |