Emotions and Ethics/The Intellect Notebooks

by Brunton, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780943914220
• ISBN10: 0943914221
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-01-15
• Publisher: Larson Publications

Summary

This fifth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton presents, in depth, sections 6 and 7 of Dr. Bruntons masterful 28-fold approach to spiritual self-development.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction	p. ix
Emotions and Ethics
Uplift Character	p. 3
Environmental influence	p. 36
Moral relativity	p. 38
Conscience	p. 42
Goodness	p. 46
Altruism	p. 49
Patience, perseverance	p. 52
Value of confession, repentance	p. 57
Truthfulness	p. 66
Re-Educate Feelings	p. 69
Love, compassion	p. 78
Detachment	p. 94
Family	p. 100
Friendship	p. 102
Marriage	p. 104
Happiness	p. 108
Discipline Emotions	p. 113
Higher and lower emotions	p. 113
Self-restraint	p. 131
Matured emotion	p. 134
Purify Passions	p. 137
Spiritual Refinement	p. 158
Courtesy, tolerance, considerateness	p. 158
Spiritual value of manners	p. 179
Discipline of speech	p. 184
Accepting criticism	p. 189
Refraining from criticism	p. 195
Forgiveness	p. 199
Criticizing constructively	p. 201
Sympathetic understanding	p. 204
Avoid Fanaticism	p. 208
Miscellaneous Ethical Issues	p. 222
Nonviolence, nonresistance, pacifism	p. 224
The Intellect
The Place of Intellect	p. 3
Its value	p. 3
Its limitations	p. 10
Its inward vision	p. 16
Reason, intuition, and insight	p. 21
The Service of Intellect	p. 30
Cultivation of intelligence	p. 31
Balance of intellect and feeling	p. 36
Doubt and the modern mind	p. 42
The Development of Intellect	p. 46
Independence and individuality	p. 50
Comparison and synthesis	p. 56
Authority and the past	p. 63
Books	p. 70
Abstract Thought	p. 82
Facts and logic	p. 82
The need for precision	p. 88
Semantics	p. 96
Clarity is essential	p. 98
The problem with words	p. 105
The meaning of language	p. 111
Science	p. 116
Influence of science	p. 116
When science stands alone	p. 121
Science and metaphysics	p. 128
Metaphysics of Truth	p. 138
Speculation vs. knowledge	p. 142
Issues and adherents	p. 151
Its spiritual significance	p. 157
Intellect, Reality, and the Overself	p. 164
Index for Part 1
Index for Part 2
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