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The Price of Being Hur
A Life Lived Free
The Price of Being Hur
An accounting of freedom, its consequences, and the distance between a name and a life.
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THE OPEN MANUSCRIPT⸺Syed Muhammad Hur Jaffri◇
The Lucid Animal
On the Impossibility of Seeing Clearly and the Necessity of Trying
Philosophy & reflection / Freedom & Selfhood
The Lucid Animal
On the Impossibility of Seeing Clearly and the Necessity of Trying
An examination of clear sight, uncertainty, and the effort to think honestly while living a life.
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- 01Opening pages
- 02PREFACE
- 03PART I — On the Self That Was Given
- 04PART II — On Morality: The Map That Mistakes Itself for the Territory
- 05PART III — On Religion: What the Secular Mind Cannot Afford to Learn
- 06PART IV — On the State: The Institution That Learned to Feel Like Nature
- 07PART V — On Suffering: The Question That Refuses to Be Answered
- 08PART VI — On Love: Proximity and Its Violences
- 09PART VII — On Fame: The Self Projected Past Its Own Death
- 10PART VIII — On Death: The Argument That Swallows All Other Arguments
- 11PART IX — On Living Clearly: The Cost of the Attempt
- 12EPILOGUE
- 13AFTERWORD