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hoaxing

Horst Wessel Lied

How to Read the Bible (Kugel)

Hubble, Edwin

humanism

humankind; assumptions and conclusions by; complexity of behavior of; Comte theory of; exceptionalism of; experience and; Freudian biological origins theory of; higher-order questions of; individual mind and; internalized prohibitions and; kinship with God of; language and; as microcosm; mind’s self-awareness and; multiverse hypothesis and; origins of; parscientific defining of; positivism on; primitivity and; primordial self and; purpose of life and; questions about; religion and; self-alienation and; self-interest and; sense of emptiness and; shrinking importance of; unique qualities of; universe and

human nature; altruism and (see altruism); debunking and; Freudian theory of; genes and; high estimate of; parascientific literature on; subjectivity and; values and

Humphrey, N. K.

Huxley, Thomas H.

hypertrophy

hypocrites

hypothesis

“I am,”

idea, as meme

illusory rewards

imitation, meme and

immigrants

imponderables

inauthenticity

incest prohibition

incremental changes

indeterminacy

individual felt experience

information processing

insect altruism

insight

intelligent life

intention, accident vs.

interfamilial crimes

internalization

Internet

interpretation

Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud)

introspection

intuition

James, William; definition of religion of; on subjectivity; Varieties of Religious Experience , Judaism. See also anti-Semitism Jung, Carl, justice

Kant, Immanuel

kinship altruism; drowning child example and; genetic replication and

knowledge; indeterminacy and; parascientific certainty and; positivism and

Krebs, John

Kugel, James L.; How to Read the Bible

language; German speakers and

laws of nature

Le Bon, Gustave

Leibniz, Gottfried, libido

life, purpose and meaning of

limited resources

love

Lueger, Karl

Luther, Martin

lying

malaise

Malthus, Thomas Robert; Theory of Population

marriage customs

martyrdom

Marx, Karl

mass behavior

materialism

materiality, nonmateriality vs.

mating

Maurras, Charles

Mead, Margaret

Melville, Herman

meme; characteristic of; examples of; origins of

memory; repression of

mental phenomena. See mind

Mesopotamia

metaphysics; deconstruction of; Descartes and; dictionary definition of; rejection of

microorganisms

Miller, Geoffrey

mind: as attribute of God; awareness of; as brain activity; brain injury and; common-sense notions of; data and; Dawkins view of; definitions of; Descartes view of; elusiveness of; as felt individual experience; Freudian narrative of; higher acts of; “imponderables” and; introspection and; meme and; modern thought on; parascientific view of; as passive conduit; perils of; as physical vs. nonphysical; polemic against; proofs of existence of; reality and; reductionist understanding of; religion and; scale of reality and; science and; unvarying condition of; Wilson theory of. See also soul; subjectivity

mind-body dichotomy

modern thought; authentic schism in; consistency and; contemporary era and; core assumption of; debunking and; Freudianism and; incompatible schools with; long duration of; malaise and; mind and, 56; myth of “the modern” and; “neo-” and “post-” prefixes and; post-metaphysical discussion and; science and; sense of emptiness and; on subjective experience; as threshold event; unifying principle behind

monads

monism

monotheism

morality; as law of nature

Moses

Moses and Monotheism (Freud)

motives; for altruism; deceptive strategies for

multiverse

mystery

mysticism

mythic past

myths; Freudian single universal

Napoleon

national identity

natural selection; morality vs. See also evolution theory Nazis

neo-Darwinism; on goal of brain evolution; hypertrophy and; incremental developmental changes and

neologism

“neo-” prefix

nervous system

neurosis

Newton, Isaac

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Noble Savage

nonmateriality, materiality vs.

nostalgia politics. See mythic past

nuclear energy

objectivity; subjectivity vs.

observation

occultism. See parapsychology “oceanic feeling,”

Oedipal drama. See parricide Old Testament. See Bible On Human Nature (Wilson)

On the Truth of the Christian Religion (Grotius)

ontogeny

ontology

Origin of Species, The (Darwin)

origins. See also creation overpopulation

paganism

pair bonding

pan-Germanist movement

parapsychology

parascientific literature; absence of mind from; actual science vs.; altruism and; characterizing traits of; contributors to; definition of; explanatory model and; meme concept as example of; reality and; reasoning of; religious antagonism of; soul and; style of argument of; subjectivity and; vulnerable arguments of

“parent infusorium,”

parricide

pathology

perception

persecution, religious

personality

philology

philosophy

photon, splitting of

physical laws; accidental outcomes of

physics; quantum

pineal gland

Pinker, Steven; The Blank Slate ; on mind; on religion; on self; on senses; on soul

pleasure principle

Plutarch

population growth

positivism; parascientific genre and; religious antagonism of

postmodern hermeneutics

“post-” prefix

post-structuralism

poverty

precognition

prefrontal cortex

pretense

primal father theory. See also parricide

primal horde

primal innocence

primitivity; evolution theory and; parascientific literature and

prisoner’s dilemma

profanity

profundity

progress

protective devices

protozoon

psychoanalysis

psychology; evolutionary. See also behaviorism; Freud, Sigmund

psychosis

purpose of life

quantum physics

questions

racial nationalism; language of fear and

role of philology in. See also anti-Semitism

racial unconscious

random, attraction of

rationalism

reality, nature of; Cartesian objectivity and; explanatory model of; Freudian model of; infinite potential realities and; mythic past and; parascientific literature on; science and; self-interest and; strangeness of; threshold event insights into; unknowability and; unreality and. See also consciousness

reason

recapitulation theory

reciprocity, altruistic

reductionism

relativity theory

religion; absent God trope and; altruism and; as ancient and global; anthropology and; communal nature of; conflict and; definitions of; Freud on; as illusion; James on; nature of mind and; origins and; polemics against; rejection of metaphysics and; resurrection and; science and, ix; science of; sense of emptiness and; subjectivity of faith and; universal experience of. See also Christianity; God; Judaism; soul; theology

repression, Freud and; memory and; sexuality and

reproduction. See also kinship altruism

resurrection

Rolland, Romain

Romans

Romanticism

Rorty, Richard, The Future of Religion

Russell, Bertrand

Russia

Ryle, Gilbert

Samoans

scholarship standards

science; common sense and; creation hypotheses and; culture and; Descartes and; false expectations and; First Cause and; Freudian metapsychology and; human subjectivity and; materiality vs. nonmateriality and; measurement and; mind and; modern culture and; nature of reality and; objective demonstration and; parascience contrasted with; popularization of; positivism and