Table of Contents
1. Chapter One
1. Basic Properties
2. Complementary Factors
3. How to Count Mitzvot
4. Commanded vs. Personal Morality
2. Chapter Two
1. Karmic Law Denied
2. Empirical Observations
3. Inductive Conclusions
3. Chapter Three
1. Harmonizing Justice and Mercy
2. Feelings of Emptiness
4. Chapter Four
1. Knowledge of Volition
2. Freedom of the Will
3. Decision and Choice
4. Goals and Means
5. Chapter Five
1. The Consciousness in Volition
2. The Factors of Responsibility
3. Judging, and Misjudging, People
6. Chapter Six
1. Influence Occurs via Consciousness
2. Knowledge of Effort, Influence and Freedom
3. Formal Analysis of Influence
4. Incitement
7. Chapter Seven
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
8. Chapter Eight
1. Volition and Biology
2. Therapeutic Psychology
9. Chapter Nine
1. Cognition, Volition and Valuation
2. Velleity
3. Whim
4. Inner Divisions
10. Chapter Ten
1. Valuation
2. The Main Valuations
3. Ethology
11. Chapter Eleven
1. Habits
2. Obsessions and Compulsions
3. The Ego Abhors a Vacuum
12. Chapter Twelve
1. Physical Urges and Impulses
2. Mental Urges and Impulses
3. Formal Analysis of Physical & Mental Urges
4. Are There Drives Within the Soul?
5. Formal Analysis of Spiritual Urges
13. Chapter Thirteen
1. Purposiveness
2. Organic Functions
3. The Continuity of Life
14. Chapter Fourteen
1. Social Darwinism
2. Spiritual Darwinism
15. Chapter Fifteen
1. Founding Ethics
2. Ethics is for the Living, Thinking, Willing
3. Conscience and Conformism 4
4. Tai Chi, Karma Yoga and Faith 8
16. Chapter Sixteen
1. Inducing Ethics
2. Ethical Formulas
3. Philosophy of Law
17. Chapter Seventeen
1. Against Kant on Freewill
2. Alleged Influences
18. Chapter Eighteen
1. The Goals of Meditation
2. The Individual Self in Monism
19. Chapter Nineteen
1. Distinguishing the Ego
2. Dismissing the Ego
3. Relief from Suffering
20. Chapter Twenty
1. Taking Up the Challenge
2. Face Facts with Equanimity
21. Chapter Twenty-One
1. Stop Substance Addictions
2. Don’t Stuff Yourself Silly
3. Limit Input from the Media
22. Chapter Twenty-Two
1. Forget Your Face
2. Give Up Sensuality
3. On “Sexual Liberation”
23. Chapter Twenty-Three
1. Attachment
2. Non-attachment 1
3. Wise Moderation 3
24. Chapter Twenty-Four 6
1. Freewill 6
2. The Is-Ought Dichotomy
3. The Standards of Ethics
25. Chapter Twenty-Five
1. The Laws of Thought in Meditation
2. Reason and Spirituality
26. Chapter Twenty-Six
1. Mental Health
2. Transcending Suffering and Karma
27. Chapter Twenty-Seven
1. Enlightenment Without Idolatry
2. Good People
3. A World of Mercy
28. Chapter Twenty-Eight
1. Understanding Injustice
2. Forgiveness
3. Actions and Reactions
References