Greetings, Btw, this is a very expensive book, but can always be borrowed, without cost or for a minimal fee, from your local library's ILL (Interlibrary Loan) system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibrary_loan Marsha On Aug 8, 2011, at 4:01 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > This book is worth reading for many reasons; one of them being the beauty and > precision of Ms. Adbahari's academic prose... Here, for example, her > explanation of the word 'sense' makes all further references, of which there > are many, clearly understandable. > > > > 2.2 What is meant by 'sense' in 'sense of self'? > > "Now one may wonder at the choice of terms used to describe this deep > subjective allegiance to the self's existence. While I have chosen the term > 'sense' to be primary, my usage of other terms such as 'belief', > 'assumption', and 'feeling' is meant to convey that the term 'sense' in this > context is more complex than in some other contexts. The reason for > allocating the word 'sense' as primary is that the turn of phrase 'sense of > self' is already in vogue and, while lacking ideal precision, it captures the > general gist very well. What, then, do we mean by 'sense' in this context? > Let us distinguish it first from that associated with the five sensory > organs, as put by the 'Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary' (2006): > 'specialized animal function or mechanism (as sight, hearing, smell, taste, > or touch) basically involving a stimulus and a sense organ'. This is not > the notion of sense we are concerned with, for the self, purporting to be a > kind of subject rather than obje c > t, does not purport to be the kind of thing that could be detected via any of > the five (object-tracking) sensory organs. The same dictionary offers, > however, another definition that is more to the point: 'a definite but often > vague awareness or impression <felt a 'sense' of insecurity> <a 'sense' of > danger>'. One can have a sense of danger or insecurity without obvious input > from a particular sense organ --- which well suits the case of the self in > question. The notion thus captures something more cognitive (as opposed to > perceptual); a subjective or conscious impression of some sort. This notion > of 'sense' is moreover not a success-term: to have a sense of X does not > imply that X exists. For example, if one has a sense --- or conscious > impression --- of danger, then there need not be danger that is sensed. > This notion of sense, as a conscious impression, will thus apply well to the > 'self' whose existence may be under question. > > "As a kind of 'a definite but often vague awareness or impression', the > term 'sense as applied to 'self' has a further advantage. It manages to > convey a subjective experience: that there is, in Nagel's famous phrase, > "something it is like", from the first-person perspective, to have or undergo > a general conscious impression of X. ..." > > (Albahari, Miri, 'Analytical Buddhism: The Two-tiered Illusion of Self ', > p.18) > > ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
