Logical and Spiritual Reflections

By Sion, Avi, Dr.

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Title:	Logical and Spiritual Reflections
Author:	Sion, Avi, Dr.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Philosophy, Logic, Spirituality, Psychology, Ethics, Buddhism, Zen Judaism
Collections:	Authors Community, Philosophy
Historic Publication Date:	2008
Publisher:	Avi Sion - Kindle

Member Page:	Avi Sion
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Description
Logical and Spiritual Reflections is a collection of six shorter philosophical works, including: Hume’s Problems with Induction; A Short Critique of Kant’s Unreason; In Defense of Aristotle’s Laws of Thought; More Meditations; Zen Judaism; No to Sodom. Of these works, the first set of three constitutes the Logical Reflections, and the second set constitutes the Spiritual Reflections.

Summary
Logical and Spiritual Reflections is a collection of six shorter philosophical works, including: Hume’s Problems with Induction; A Short Critique of Kant’s Unreason; In Defense of Aristotle’s Laws of Thought; More Meditations; Zen Judaism; No to Sodom.

Table of Contents
I. Logical Reflections 7 Book 1. HUME’S PROBLEMS WITH INDUCTION 9 1. Hume’s “problem of induction” 10 2. The principle of induction 14 3. Causation, necessity and connection 19 4. The psychology of induction 24 5. The self or soul 32 6. Freewill 36 7. The is-ought dichotomy 38 8. Hempel's paradox of confirmation 41 9. Goodman’s paradox of prediction 50 10. The induction of induction 56 11. Descartes’ mind-body dichotomy 60 12. Some further remarks on causal logic 65 13. Addenda (2009) 72 Book 2. A SHORT CRITIQUE OF KANT’S UNREASON 75 1. Kant’s transcendental reality 76 2. The analytic-synthetic dichotomy 86 3. Theory of knowledge 96 4. Experience, space and time 101 5. Kant’s “categories” 111 6. Ratiocinations 121 7. How numbers arise 129 8. Geometrical logic 133 9. Addenda (2009-10) 138 Book 3. IN DEFENSE OF ARISTOTLE’S LAWS OF THOUGHT 141 1. Logicians have to introspect 142 2. The primacy of the laws of thought 146 3. The ontological status of the laws 151 4. Fuzzy logic 153 5. Misrepresentation of Aristotle 156 6. Not on the geometrical model 161 7. A poisonous brew 164 8. The game of one-upmanship 168 9. In Buddhist discourse 171 10. Calling what is not a spade a spade 176 11. Buddhist causation theory 179 12. A formal logic of change 182 13. Buddhist critique of change 184 14. Different strata of knowledge 187 15. Impermanence 190 16. Buddhist denial of the soul 194 17. The status of sense perceptions 198 18. The status of dreams and daydreams 202 19. The status of conceptions 205 20. The laws of thought in meditation 208 21. Reason and spirituality 211 22. Addenda (2010) 214 II. Spiritual Reflections 215 Book 4. MORE MEDITATIONS 217 1. Go directly and keep going 218 2. Breath and thought awareness 220 3. Self awareness 222 4. Meditation on the self 224 5. Various remarks on meditation 226 6. Mental health 231 7. Behold the mind 234 8. The four foundations and the core practice 238 9. Transcending suffering and karma 241 10. Behold the soul 243 11. The Buddhist no-soul theory 246 12. Buddhist historicity 251 13. About Buddhist idolatry 253 14. Buddhist messianism 256 15. Assimilating Buddhism 258 16. Addenda (2009) 260 Book 5. ZEN JUDAISM 265 1. God and Creation 266 2. Torah and faith 269 3. Biblical text and commentary 273 4. Tradition vs. innovation 280 5. The rabbinical estate 283 6. Judaic illogic 285 7. Jewish meditation 291 8. Enlightenment without idolatry 296 9. Good people 299 10. A world of mercy 302 11. Understanding injustice 304 12. Forgiveness 308 13. Actions and reactions. 311 14. (Appendix 1) Round numbers in Torah statistics 314 15. (Appendix 2) Prayer in uncertainty 328 16. Addenda (2009) 335 17. Logic in defense of Zionism (2009) 341 18. The Chanukah lights miracle: 347 Book 6. NO TO SODOM 352 1. Picking up the gauntlet 353 2. Homosexuals defined 355 3. Homosexual tendencies 358 4. The biological role of sex 360 5. Non-reproductive sex 362 6. Deviance and suffering 364 7. Some probable causes 366 8. Changing rationalizations 369 9. It is freely chosen 371 10. Sensuality and perversion 373 11. Spiritual impurity 376 12. The essence of sodomy 378 13. A social revolution 380 14. The defenders and promoters of homosexuality 383 15. Some legal issues 385 16. A call for recovery 388 17. (Annex) The Rabbis must ban homosexuals from Judaism 390 Figures 1. A syllogism with geometrical propositions 134 2. Definite and indefinite terminology 154 3. Visualizations of negation 169