"With memory, imagination and intellection flourishes the ability to dwell on slights, nurse resentments, and exaggerate injuries – of which there are, of necessity, many, since the succession of these are what necessitate self-control in the first place. With these abilities also flourish the abilities to recall and reflect on the past, to derive meaning, illumination and satisfaction from it; to extend the lessons and values learned from it into principles and theories that guide present action and future planning; and to imagine counterfactual alternatives to actual states of affairs. In the flowering of these abilities consists the development and growth of transpersonal rationality. They extend the agent’s awareness past the boundaries of the present moment and situation, past the boundaries of the body and the self, past their felt needs and drives, past the boundaries of an individual human lifespan, and indeed far past the boundaries of the physical world. The achievement of interiority releases individual awareness from the funnel vision of immediate drives and impulses into an unbounded universe of theory-laden modality, in which necessities, facts, and possibilities at all levels of abstraction compete for the agent’s interest. Interiority at this level is an authentic expression of transpersonal rationality."
-- Excerpt from Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II: A Kantian Conception, Chapter V. How Reason Causes Action
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- Ockham wielding his razor!
- Review of The Beatles Anthology, Chronicle Books 2000 (367pp).
- A brief discussion note about Susan James, Passion and Action: The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.
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- Review of Introduction to the Problem of Individuation in the Early Middle Ages by Jorge Gracia, Catholic University of America Press 1984 (303pp). From The Philosophical Review 97 (1988), 564-567.
- Review of Introduction to Medieval Logic by Alexander Broadie, OUP 1987 (vi+150pp). From The Philosophical Review 99 (1990), 299-302.
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