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

religion and, ix; social sciences and; theory and hypothesis and

science of religion

Searle, John

sectarianism

secularism

self; awareness of (see self-awareness); debunking conceptions of; Freudian model of; individual experience and; interior drama and; richly individual history of; romantic myth of

self-alienation

self-awareness; definition of; introspection and

self-deception

self-doubt

self-interest; genetics and; meme and; morality as counter to; “soft-core” altruism as

selfishness. See self-interest

selflessness. See altruism

senses

sexuality; civilization’s restrictions on; Freudian self and

shamanism

shame

single-cell reproduction

skepticism

Skinner, B. F.

Smith, Adam

social approval

social Darwinism

social pathologies

social sciences

social theory

sociobiology

sociology

“soft-core” altruism

solitude

soul:; altruistic acts and; beauty and strangeness of; debunking of; Descartes and; as experience; nature of; nonreligious characterization of

spacelessness

speculation

Spencer, Herbert; on altruism; Data of Ethics ; on evolution and morality; on relativity theory

Spengler, Oswald; beliefs of; The Decline of the West

spirituality

spontaneous fission

starvation

stimuli, protection/reception of

stranger altruism

structuralism

subjectivity; brain injury and; complexity of; of faith; James on; parascientific exclusion of

sublimation

suffering, identification with

Sufi poets

Sumerian flood story

survival

Tasaday

Tasmanians

termite behavior

theodicies

theology; ancient intuition of; parascientific world view and. See also religion

Theory of Population (Malthus)

thinking. See mind

threshold events; Cartesian thought and

timelessness, Totem and Taboo (Freud)

totems

Townsend, Peter

transformative concept

tribal warfare

triumphalism

trust in mind

truth; objective demonstration of

Tumulty, Joseph

uncertainty principle

unconscious; Freudian redefinition of; interior drama and

universal human character

universal love

universal myth

universal religious experience

universe: accelerated expansion of; as accident; beginning of; fractional visibility of; human place in; multiverse possibility and; origins of; parascientific genre and

unknowability

Unmoved Mover

unreality

values

Varieties of Religious Experience (James)

Vattimo, Gianni, The Future of Religion , −

Versailles Treaty (1919)

victimization narratives

Vienna: anti-Semitism in; Freudian self-analogy with

violence; Freudian primordial crime and; tribal. See also warfare

warfare

Wesley, John

Wilson, E.O.; on altruism; on coextension of physical and social sciences; conception of mind of; Consilience; On Human Nature

Wilson, Thomas Woodrow

World War I

Wyclif, John

Yanomamo