The Chains We Call Choice
A Critique of Freedom, Consciousness, and the Self-Deceiving Animal
The Chains We Call Choice
A philosophical examination of choice, inherited beliefs, morality, and the stories that sustain the self.
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The books & writings of Syed Muhammad Hur Jaffri
On freedom and its cost. On memory and its silences. On the stories we tell ourselves to keep going.
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A Life Lived Free
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A Life Lived Free
An accounting of freedom, its consequences, and the distance between a name and a life.
A Life Lived Free
A Critique of Freedom, Consciousness, and the Self-Deceiving Animal
A philosophical examination of choice, inherited beliefs, morality, and the stories that sustain the self.
Open the bookThe Archive of Absent People
A psychological novella about the lives beyond old images, the passage of time, and the people who remain in memory.
Open the bookThe question is not whether you are free. The question is whether you can bear to keep asking.Syed Muhammad Hur Jaffri · The Lucid Animal
Different books. Questions that speak to each other.
I write about freedom, self-deception, conscience, memory, and the things we leave unsaid. This archive brings together my books and gives each one a place to be read, freely and in full.
More about the authorA Philosophy of Sin, Repentance, and the Self That Must Account for Both
An inquiry into repentance, the excavation of motive, and the point where an explanation becomes an alibi.
On the Crime Committed in the Explaining
On the original wrong and the continuing act of making it bearable through explanation.
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