Marilynne Robinson - Absence of Mind - The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self

Russell, Bertrand. The Analysis of Mind . 1921. Reprint, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1933.

—. Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects . London: George Allen & Unwin, 1957.

Searle, John R. Mind: A Brief Introduction . New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Spencer, Herbert. The Data of Ethics . New York: D. Appleton, 1879.

Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West . Abridged edition. Translated by H. Stuart Hughes. Oxford: Oxford University Press,

1991.

Wilson, Edward O. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge . New York: Knopf, 1998.

—. On Human Nature . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.

abydenus

accident: intention vs.; notion of; universe as

Addresses to the German Nation (Fichte)

aggression

alienation

altruism; Comte meaning of; cost-benefit equation and; as meme; motives for; parascientific thought on; questions about; reciprocity expectation for; redefinition of; rewards of; Spencer argument for; survival and; true selflessness and; value systems and. See also kinship altruism

“American Scholar, The” (Emerson)

amorality

ant and lancet metaphor

anthropology; parascientific literature and, popularization of; religion and; violence and

antibiotic-resistant organisms

antigravitational force

anti-Semitism: Maurras and; Nietzsche and; Spengler and; Viennese climate of

anxiety

art; culture and; religion and

artifacts, first

aspirations

assumptions, Assyria

atheism

authenticity

Babylonia, beauty, beginnings, behavior, motives for. See also altruism behaviorism, being

benevolence

Berosus

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud)

Bible

biological origins theory (Freud)

Blank Slate, The (Pinker)

blood libel trial

body. See mind-body dichotomy Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

bourgeois

brain; complexity of; human uniqueness of; information processing by; machinery of; meme and; mind relationship with.; neo-Darwinist evolutionary goal of; nervous system and; personality and; qualitative change and; regional activity of; scientific approach to; soul and

brain injury

Breaking the Spell (Dennett)

Calvin, John, cargo cultists

Cartesianism. See Descartes, Rene catastrophe stories

causality

cerebral cortex

certainty

Chaldeans

changes, evolutionary

character

Christianity; early martyrdom and; persecution and; positivist and parascientific thought vs.

civilization; as alienation from self; beginnings of; discomforts of; internalized sublimations and; mind and; perceived threats to. See also culture

Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud)

classical tradition

cognition

collective experience

collective intellectual pathology

colonialism

common sense

communism

compassion

competition

complexity

Comte, Auguste; meaning of altruism to; scientific knowledge and

conceptual meaning

condescension

conflict; violence and. See also warfare

conscience

consciousness; behavior and; Descartes and; Freud and; self-awareness and. See also unconscious

Consilience (Wilson)

contemplation

cooperation

cosmic expansion; acceleration of

cosmic origins. See also universe

cosmic stimuli

cosmological constant

cosmopolitanism

cost-benefit analysis

courage

creation; divine fiat as; scientific hypotheses on

crowds, nature of

cultural evolution

cultural purity

culture; arts and humanities and; civilization vs.; diversity of; Freud on; Jungian vs. Freudian view of; memes and; Nietzsche on; science and; sensory experiences and; transformative concept and

Damasio, Antonio

dark energy

dark matter

Darwin, Charles; The Descent of Man; The Origin of Species

Darwinian evolution. See evolution theory; neo-Darwinism

Data of Ethics (Spencer)

Dawkins, Richard

death

death of God

debunking

deceit, Decline of the West, The (Spengler)

Deluge. See flood narratives delusion

denial

Dennett, Daniel; Breaking the Spell

Descartes, Rene; Discourse on Method

Descent of Man, The (Darwin)

Deus Absconditus

Discourse on Method (Descartes)

Donne, John

doubt

Dreyfus affair

drowning child rescue scenario

dualism

Dugatkin, Lee Alan, dulce et decorum et pro patria mori

ego boundary

egoism

Einstein, Albert

embryology

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “The American Scholar,”

emotions: brain site of; for family

empathy

emptiness, sense of

endogamy

ensoulment. See soul epistemology

eros

ethical impulses

ethnic purity

etsi Deu no daretur

European thought; abandonment of metaphysics and; civilization’s alienation and; collective intellectual pathology and; Freudianism and

evolutionary psychologists

evolution theory; altruism and; changes and; moral behavior and; natural selection and; parascientific thought on, (see also neo-Darwinism); soft-core altruistic capacity and; Wilson on

exceptionalism, human

existence

expanding universe; acceleration of

experience; collective; defenses against, individual history of

faith, ebbing away of

family. See kinship altruism fear

felt life

Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb; Addresses to the German Nation

First Cause

first principles

fixed assumptions

flawed learnedness

flood narratives

France

free will

French Revolution

Freud, Sigmund; altruism and; anti-Semitic climate and; European racial nationalism and; on human biological origins; Jung’s differences with; metapyschological essays of; on mind’s untrustworthiness; on moral behavior; on “oceanic feeling,”; parascientific genre and; parricide’s centrality to thought of; on pleasure principle; psychological study of Woodrow Wilson by; rational assumptions of; on religion; on repressed sexuality; on self-alienation; on subjective experience; universalized thought of; works of: Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Civilization and Its Discontents; The Future of Illusion; The Interpretation of Dreams; Moses and Monotheism; Totem and Taboo

frontal lobes

Future of Illusion, The (Freud), Future of Religion, The (Rorty and Vattimo)

Gage, Phineas

Galileo

game theory

Gazzaniga, Michael

generosity

genes: evolutionary changes and; human nature and; meme and; replication of; self-interested altruism and; survival and

Genesis; Grotius’s truth argument for

German language

Germans

Ghost in the Machine

Gilgamesh epic

God; absence of; arguments for existence of; Cartesian knowledge of; divine creation by; flood story and

German language as gift from; mindfulness and; monotheism and

good nature

goodness

Grand Being

gravity effect

Great Awakenings

Gregory of Nyssa

Grotius, Hugo; On the Truth of the Christian Religion

guilt

Haldane, J. B. S.

Hamilton, William

Hegel, G. W. F.

Heisenberg uncertainty principle

Heraclitus

Herodotus

history; Fichte and; Spengler and; transformative concept and

Hitler, Adolf