Nature of the Self: A Philosophy on Human NatureProposes a radical theory on the existential confirmation and understanding of the Self. |
Contents
Paving a Way for a Treatise | 1 |
The Metaphysical Self | 23 |
The Physical Self | 89 |
The Belonging of the Body the Sensation of Pain | 100 |
The Active Receptivity of Sensation | 108 |
Voluntary and Involuntary Movements | 141 |
Choices Preference and MetaDesires | 152 |
Freewill and the Self | 197 |
Ownership of Thoughts and Emotive Experience | 209 |
Thoughts and Beliefs | 223 |
Memory and the Self | 259 |
Knowing and Understanding | 280 |
The Moral Self | 293 |
Individuals and Community | 393 |
Selected further reading | 414 |
The Inner Self | 203 |
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