CONTRADICTION & REALITY

A SUMMARY

CONTRADICTION & REALITY A SUMMARY 1939
I. PROBLEMS, [OPINIONS] & DEFINITIONS [3-5] 1ff
1. problems of selfhood [latin tr.]: 1 2. cognate problems [latin tr.]: 18 3. definitions [of self by linguistic uses - table A]: 30 [4. our symbols and their limitations]
II. LIMITS & BOUNDARIES [5-6] 51ff
1. the self [our selves]: 51 2. units [objects] of sense perception: 71 3. [events] inorganic matter: 75 4. [organism] organic matter: 90 5. [conditions] things as operations: 93
III. INFLATION & CONTRACTION OF SELF [6-8] 101ff
1. inflation of self: 101 2. [Stoic] contraction [of self]: 114 3. Buddhist anatta [redone]: 123 [4. self as symbol] [5. this is not my self]
IV. UNITY & ACTIVITY [8-10] 201ff
1. unity in action [redone]: 201 2. unity apart from action [fragment]: 245 [3. actions and agents [->XI/5]]
V. LEVELS OF DURATION [10-13] 301ff
1. time and duration: 301 2. levels of duration: 350 3. instants: 370 4. eternity [notes/redone]: 375
VI. LEVELS OF GENERALITY [13-15] 451ff
1. the self: 451 2. essence and generality: 460
VII. LEVELS OF SELF-ACTIVITY [15-18] 501ff
1. social practice [& reality]: 501 2. self-extinction [& reality]: 521 3. liberty [freedom & reality] [notes [->XI/6]]: 561 4. liberty and nonsense: 580
VIII. ALL THINGS TEND TO BE ONE [18-22] 601ff
1. potentialities: 601 2. the subject [of belonging] [notes/redone]: 676 3. relations: 766 [4. reifications]
IX. ALL THINGS TEND TO BE NOTHING [22-28] [anew] 801ff
1. selfhood & contradicitions [oneness & nothingness]: 801 2. organic self-contradiction [-negation]: 840 3. mental [self-]contradictions: 920
X. HOW TO DEAL WITH SELF-NEGATING ATTITUDES [28-32] [anew] 1100ff
1. anxiety: 1100 2. self-deception [causes & conditions]: 1151 3. conclusion: 1269

ONTOLOGY A BACKGROUND FOR MEDITATION 1942
XI. BUDDHIST TRAINING [I]
1. introductory [in general] 2. mindfulness 3. I-making 4. self and its conditions [IV/3->] 5. self as subject and agent [VII/3->] 6. this self and the self by itself 7. unlimited
XII. BUDDHIST TRAINING [II] completed
1. the body 2. social life 3. objects 4. threefold withdrawal from sense objects 5. concentration 6. nirvana [pali/sanskrit notes]

tables:
A. Linguistic uses of "self"
B. Buddhist uses of "dharma"

appendixes:
1. Aristoteles & the principle of contradiction: XXXXV-CLX
2. psychology of plants: CCCC-CCCCXXV

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