The Fire of Self-Knowledge

The Fire of Self-Knowledge
Author: James Swartz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2019-05-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780967444468

S hankaracharya's Atma Bodha was written in the eighth century to clarify the fundamental ideas revealed in the Upanishads. It is meant to be studied as a straightforward introduction, as it does not include elaborate arguments negating dualistic and quasi-dualistic views. The Fire of Self-Knowledge is an illustrated commentary on the great sage's poetic verses that presents the teaching methodology of Vedanta in an easily understandable manner for the seeker to assimilate the basic concepts.

Handbook of Self-Knowledge

Handbook of Self-Knowledge
Author: Simine Vazire
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2012-06-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462505112

An exploration of self-knowledge looks at current research on how people perceive their own thoughts, feelings, traits, and behavior, with coverage encompassing the mental, behavioral, biological, and social structures that underlie self-knowledge.

Socrates and Self-Knowledge

Socrates and Self-Knowledge
Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2015-10-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107123305

The first systematic study of Socrates' interest in selfhood, examining ancient philosophical ideas of what constitutes the self.

Self-Knowledge and Resentment

Self-Knowledge and Resentment
Author: Akeel Bilgrami
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674064526

In Self-Knowledge and Resentment, Akeel Bilgrami argues that self-knowledge of our intentional states is special among all the knowledges we have because it is not an epistemological notion in the standard sense of that term, but instead is a fallout of the radically normative nature of thought and agency. Four themes or questions are brought together into an integrated philosophical position: What makes self-knowledge different from other forms of knowledge? What makes for freedom and agency in a deterministic universe? What makes intentional states of a subject irreducible to its physical and functional states? And what makes values irreducible to the states of nature as the natural sciences study them? This integration of themes into a single and systematic picture of thought, value, agency, and self-knowledge is essential to the book's aspiration and argument. Once this integrated position is fully in place, the book closes with a postscript on how one might fruitfully view the kind of self-knowledge that is pursued in psychoanalysis.

Self-Knowledge

Self-Knowledge
Author: The School of Life
Publisher: School of Life
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Consciousness
ISBN: 9780995753501

An examination of the importance of self-knowledge, providing practical exercises to aid self-discovery.

Self-Knowledge for Humans

Self-Knowledge for Humans
Author: Quassim Cassam
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-11-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019103973X

Human beings are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless and uncritical, and our beliefs, desires, and other attitudes aren't always as they ought rationally to be. Our beliefs can be eccentric, our desires irrational and our hopes hopelessly unrealistic. Our attitudes are influenced by a wide range of non-epistemic or non-rational factors, including our character, our emotions, and powerful unconscious biases. Yet we are rarely conscious of such influences. Self-ignorance is not something to which human beings are immune. In this book Quassim Cassam develops an account of self-knowledge which tries to do justice to these and other respects in which humans aren't model epistemic citizens. He rejects rationalist and other mainstream philosophical accounts of self-knowledge on the grounds that, in more than one sense, they aren't accounts of self-knowledge for humans. Instead he defends the view that inferences from behavioural and psychological evidence are a basic source of human self-knowledge. On this account, self-knowledge is a genuine cognitive achievement and self-ignorance is almost always on the cards. As well as explaining knowledge of our own states of mind, Cassam also accounts for what he calls 'substantial' self-knowledge, including knowledge of our values, emotions, and character. He criticizes philosophical accounts of self-knowledge for neglecting substantial self-knowledge, and concludes with a discussion of the value of self-knowledge. This book tries to do for philosophy what behavioural economics tries to do for economics. Just as behavioural economics is the economics of homo sapiens, as distinct from the economics of an ideally rational and self homo economics, so Cassam argues that philosophy should focus on the human predicament rather than on the reasoning and self-knowledge of an idealized homo philosophicus.

Knowledge of Self

Knowledge of Self
Author: Supreme Understanding
Publisher: Supreme Design Publishing
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2009-07-30
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Do you know who - and what - you are? Do you know who you're meant to be? Do you know how to find the answers to questions like these? Knowledge of Self is the result of a process of self-discovery, but few of us know where to begin when we're ready to start looking deeper. Although self-actualization is the highest of all human needs, it is said that only 5% of people ever attain this goal. In the culture of the Nation of Gods and Earths, commonly known as the Five Percent, students are instructed that they must first learn themselves, then their worlds, and then what they must do in order to transform their world for the better. This often intense process has produced thousands of revolutionary thinkers in otherwise desperate environments, where poverty and hopelessness dominate. Until now, few mainstream publications have captured the brilliant yet practical perspectives of these luminary men and women. Knowledge of Self: A Collection of Writings on the Science of Everything in Life presents the thoughts of Five Percenters, both young and old, male and female, from all over the globe, in their own words. Through essays, poems, and even how-to articles, this anthology presents readers with an accurate portrait of what the Five Percent study and teach, as well as sound direction on how to answer timeless questions like: Who am I, and why am I here? Why is there so much injustice in the world, and what can be done about it? Who is God and where on Earth is he? How do I improve myself without losing myself? Why are people of color in the situations they're in? What can we do about the global problems of racism and poverty?

Self Knowledge for Beginners

Self Knowledge for Beginners
Author: Harry Eilenstein
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3753491160

In the end, you are the only one who may recognize yourself. You can be so different (everyone has a different horoscope) and you can be in such different situations (orphan in Brazil, mother with six children in Germany, old man in China) that there can be no instruction to self knowledge for everyone. But at least there are universal structures such as the soul, the dynamic of a horoscope, the relationship mandala or the chakra system that can help in one's orientation and also in choosing a promising direction in which to search for one's source. This book gives an overview of many of these possible approaches.

Self-Knowledge

Self-Knowledge
Author: Ted Schmidt
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2015-07-26
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1635052335

Vedanta, the oldest enlightenment tradition in the world, states that there is a clear answer to the question of who we are and a solution to the underlying feeling of insecurity that compromises our happiness. But this solution is not merely intellectual. Rather than an accumulation of information, it is an insight gained through direct analysis that fundamentally alters our perception of reality and changes our experience of life.Author Ted Schmidt invites you to journey through the process of Vedantic self-inquiry and see for yourself what it reveals regarding the essential question of who you are.Probing and provocative, Self-Knowledge takes us to a place of deep inner inquiry and spiritual peace. The tools in this book will empower you to reclaim with full confidence and unshakeable conviction the peace and happiness that is your essential nature as whole, complete, limitless awareness.