Who Am I and If So How Many? (39 page)

• Raelians
  1
  
• Rain Man
  1
  
• Ramón y Cajal, Santiago
  1
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  2
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  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  
• rational psychology
  1
  
• Rawls, John
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Ray, John
  1
  
• reason
  1
  ,
  2
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  3
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  4
  ,
  5
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  6
  ,
  7
  
  • brain’s seat of
    1
    
  • logic and, distinction between
    1
    
• Reeve, Christopher
  1
  
• relativity, theory of
  1
  
• reproductive medicine
  1
  
• Republic
  (Plato)
  1
  
• right and left perception
  1
  Rizzolatti, Giacomo
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Robinson Crusoe
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Roman Catholic Church
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Rorty, Richard
  1
  
• ‘Rosalie’
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Roth, Gerhard
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
  1
  ,
  2
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  3
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  4
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  5
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  6
  
  • birth of
    1
    
• Russell, Bertrand
  1
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  2
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  3
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  4
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  5
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  6
  

• Sacks, Oliver
  1
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  2
  
• Sade, Marquis de
  1
  
• St Augustine
  1
  
• Sartre, Jean-Paul
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
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  4
  ,
  5
  
  • death of
    1
    
• savants
  1
  
• Schelsky, Helmut
  1
  
• Schopenhauer, Arthur
  1
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  2
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  3
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  4
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  5
  
  • early life of
    1
    
• Searle, John Rogers
  1
  
• Seeing Voices
  (Sacks)
  1
  
• self
  1
  ,
  2
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  3
  ,
  4
  
  • animals and
    1
    
  • developing sense of
    1
    ,
    2
    
  • subconscious,
    see main entry
    
  • see also
    brain; consciousness; feelings; mind
    
• Seligman, Martin
  1
  
• Selkirk, Alexander
  1
  
• serotonin
  1
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  2
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  3
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  4
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  5
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  6
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  7
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  8
  
• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  1
  
• Shaw, George Bernard
  1
  
• Sheehan, Maureen
  1
  
• Sherrington, Charles Scott
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Sibley, Charles
  1
  
• Sils Maria
  1
  
• Simmel, Georg
  1
  
• Simons, Daniel
  1
  
• Simulacron Three
  1
  
• Sinatra, Frank
  1
  
• Singer, Peter
  1
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  2
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  3
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  4
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  5
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• Smith, Adam
  1
  
• Social Contract, The
  (Rousseau)
  1
  
• social Darwinism
  1
  
• Socrates
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Spencer, Herbert
  1
  
• Spinoza, Baruch
  1
  
• Spock, Mr
  1
  ,
  2
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  3
  
• Sraffa, Piero
  1
  
• Star Diaries
  1
  
• Star Trek
  1
  
• Starr, Ringo
  1
  
• stem cells
  1
  ,
  2
  ;
  see also
  cloning
  
• subconscious mind
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ;
  see also
  psyche
  
  • id
    corresponds to
    1
    
  • Schopenhauer’s view of
    1
    
  • see also
    Freud; psyche
    
• superego
  1
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  2
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  3
  ,
  4
  
• synapses in
  1
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  2
  ,
  3
  

• Theory of Colors
  (Goethe)
  1
  
• Theory of Justice, A
  (Rawls)
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Theory of Moral Sentiments
  (Smith)
  1
  
• Thirty Years War
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  
• Thomson, Judith Jarvis
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Tolstoy, Leo
  1
  
• Toshisada Nishida
  1
  
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  (Wittgenstein)
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  
• transcendental idealism
  1
  
• Treatise on Human Nature, A
  (Hume)
  1
  
• ‘Treatise on the World’ (Descartes)
  1
  
• Truman, Harry S.
  1
  
• ‘On Truth and Falsehood in an Extramoral Sense’ (Nietzsche)
  1
  ,
  2
  
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  1
  

• Übermensch
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Ulm
  1
  
• unconscious mind, see subconscious
  
• Universal Natural History
  … (Kant)
  1
  
• utilitarianism
  1
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  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
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  7
  ;
  see also
  morality
  

• Vanuatu
  1
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  2
  
• Varela, Francisco
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Vichy government
  1
  
• Vienna Circle
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Vienna Psychoanalytical Society
  1
  
• Vietnam
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Virchow, Rudolf
  1
  
• Vorilhon, Claude
  1
  

• Wachowski, Andy
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Wachowski, Larry
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Wagner, Cosima
  1
  
• Wagner, Richard
  1
  
• Wallace, Douglas
  1
  
• Washoe (chimp)
  1
  
• Weiss, Robert
  1
  
• Wernicke, Carl
  1
  
• whales
  1
  ,
  2
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  3
  
• White, Lyn
  1
  
• White, Robert
  1
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  2
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  3
  
• Whitehead, Alfred North
  1
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  2
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  3
  
• Why God Won’t Go Away
  (Newberg)
  1
  
• will
  1
  ,
  2
  
• William I
  1
  
• William II
  1
  
• Wiltshire, Stephen
  1
  
• Wise, Steven
  1
  
• Wittgenstein, Karl
  1
  
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
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  4
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  5
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  ;
  see also Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  
• Wittgenstein, Margarete
  1
  
• World as Will and Representation, The
  (Schopenhauer)
  1
  
• World Values Survey
  1
  
• World War I
  1
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  2
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  5
  
• World War II
  1
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  2
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• Wren, Christopher
  1
  
• Wundt, Wilhelm
  1
  

• Zavos, Panayiotis
  1
  

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This translation first published in the US by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York

First published in the UK by Constable, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2011

Wer bin ich, und wenn ja, wie viele?
by Richard David Precht © 2007 by
Wilhelm
Goldmann Verlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, München, Germany.
Translated by Shelley Frisch

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