Religion and the Modern Mind

by W.T. Stace

1952

Absolute, the, 46, 198, 199, 258, 259

Absolute Idealism, 147, 180, 197, 198-99,202,258

Adam,13

Ananda,235

Anaxagoras, 26, 27

Anthropomorphism, 17, 18

Aquinas, Thomas, 122

Aristarchus, 12

Aristotle, 12, 26, 30, 36, 65, 83, 103, 104, 122, 140, 255

Arnold, Matthew, 149

Ashvaghosha,233-35

Atheism, 216, 243

Atman,235

Atoms, as fictions, 171, 173

Augustine, 13

Ayer, A. J., 147, 175-76

Balfour, Arthur, 145

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 40

Behaviorism, 23

Bergson, Henri, 261

Berkeley, Bishop, 92, 93-95, 96, 137-38, 147, 179, 180-87, 189-94, 199, 207

Bible, the, 13, 14, 53, 189

Blake, William, 204

Bohr, Niels, 54

Bosanquet, Bernard, 147, 180, 199

Bradley, F. H., 147, 180, 199,244

Brahe, Tycho, 61, 62-63, 66

Brahman, 215, 235, 236, 237, 240

Browning, Robert, 187,205

Buddha, 225, 226, 233, 234, 235, 240, 241, 270, 273

Buddhism, 49, 104, 144, 215, 217, 233-35, 236, 240-41

Burma, 241

Carlyle, Thomas, 199

Carnap, Rudolph, 147

CasteIl, A., 153

Categories, 192, 194

Causation, Hume on, 156-68, 176-77 I

Ceylon, 241

Christ, 13,84, 104, 273

Christianity, 25, 26, 30, 32, 48, 104, 113, 142, 144, 228, 241

Coleridge, S. T., 134, 187, 205

Collins, William, 204

Columbus, 80

Communism, 120

Comte, Auguste, 134, 147, 168, 169-70, 172, 173, 177

Confucius, 260

Conscience, 279

Copernicus, 12, 55-61, 66, 83, 181

Dante, 13

Darwin, Charles, 53, 54, 90, 190

Democritus, 30

Descartes, Rene, 65, 66, 67, 103, 134, 147, 148, 150-55, 176, 177, 179, 180

Design, argument from, 73-82, 219, 220

Determinism, 123-28, 133, 155, 189, 190-91, 250

Dewey, John, 110, 149, 206

Donne, John, 273

Dualism, 23, 124, 125, 126, 152, 153, 176

Eckhart, Johannes, 230-32, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238

Einstein, Albert, 24, 54, 61, 69, 70, 163

Electricity, as a fiction, 171

Eliot, T. S., 207, 214, 215, 216, 225, 226,237

Emerson, R. W., 109

Empedocies, 30

Empiricism, 159

Energy, 170, 173

Epicurus, 223

Epicycles, 50, 59, 61, 63 Ether, 170

Evil, the problem of, 167-68, 223-24

Evolution, 53, 90

External teleology, 24

Fall, The, 13

Fascism, 120 283

Fate, 101, 133

Fictions, the theory of, 170-72, 173, 177

Force, 158, 162-63

Free will, 121-28, 155, 171, 173, 189, 196-97, 248-58

Freud, Sigmund, 46

Galileo, 11, 35, 36, 54, 61, 62, 63-66, 71, 83, 87, 103, 109, 138, 155, 217

Geocentrie theory, the, 12, 15, 55 et seq.

Geology, 53

Genesis, 13, 89

Gibbon, Edward, 85

Gilbert, William, 68

Good, the form of the, 28, 29

Gravitation, 66-70, 83

Gray, Thomas, 204

Greenburg, Rev. Dr., 88

Guest, Edgar, 41

Happiness, as a common human purpose, 264, 268, et seq.

Hardy, Thomas, 127

Harvey, William, 155

Health, as a common human purpose, 264, 266-68

Hegel, G. W. F., 147, 180, 198, 199, 202, 230

Heliocentric theory, the, 55, et seq.

Hemans, Mrs., 41

Herodotus, 114, 115

Hinduism, 49, 104, 144, 217, 233, 235-38, 240, 241

Hitler, Adolf, 48

Hobbes, Thomas, 35, 36, 39, 43, 44, 98, 109, 110, 111, 116, 120, 134, 147, 153, 154, 155-56, 176, 180, 187, 189

Hume, David, 85, 98, 130, 134, 147, 156-68, 169, 171, 174, 176, 180, 187, 188, 206, 207, 223

Huyghens, Christian, 68

Immanent teleology, 24

Immaterialism, 180

Immortality, 238

"Impressions," 159, 170

Indeterminism, Indeterminacy, 91, 95,123

Ineffable, the, 229

Infeld, Leopold, 24

Infinite, the, 225, 231, 237, 238

Infinity, of God, 222, 223, 238

International morals, 120, 121

Introspection, 159

Intuitions, moral, 280

Irregularities of planetary motions 70, 2, 88, 90, 92, 93, 1 9

Islam, 144, 241

James, William, 144-45, 149, 206

Jesus, 13, 215, 260, 261, 270

John, St., 215

Judaism, 144, 241

Jupiter, 55, 56, 57, 59, 64, 70, 73, 74

Kant, Immanuel, 71,138-40,147,148,.

180, 187-97, 199, 200, 202, 203, 204, 205, 208, 213, 244

Karma, 49, 104

Keats, John, 40, 134, 187, 205

Kepler, J., 11, 36, 54, 62-63, 66, 68, 69,70,83

Laplace, Pierre Simon de, 71, 72, 89, 90, 123, 124

Lecomte du Notiy, Pierre, 75, 78

Leibniz, G. W., 70, 148

Locke, John, 148, 159, 184

Logical positivism, 29, 110, 113, 134. 147, 156, 159, 168, 169, 172-76, 177, 187, 204,206, 207

Lourdes, 220

Lucretius, 49

Lyell, Sir Charles, 54

Materialism, 23, 109, 124, 125, 126, 144, 145, 152, 155, 176, 180, 189

Mathematics, 171

Maya, 235, 243

Mechanism, mechanical explanation, 19 et seq., 98 et seq., 152, 156

Metaphysics and metaphysical, 169, 170, 173-74, 176

Mill, J. S., 273

Milton, John, 41

Miracles, 220

Motion, first law of, 64-66, 67

Mozart, Wolfgang, 40

Mussolini, Benito, 120, 261

Mysticism, 229 et seq., 261, 277-81

Napoleon, 72

Naturalism, 143, 148, 150-78, 186, 187, 188, 189, 196, 207, 243, 244, 262

Nebular hypothesis, 71, 72

Necessary connection, 158 et seq.

Neo-Thomism, 207

Newton, Isaac, 11, 36, 54, 61, 62, 64, 66-70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 95, 97, 98, 100, 103, 163, 189,217

Nirvana, 215, 233, 234, 241

Noah,14

Objectivism, ethical, 32 et seq., 104, 105, 106, 107, 109, 113, 259, 260

Old Testament, 26

Painting, modern, 206

Paley, William, 45

Parallax, stellar, 61

Pascal, Blaise, 199

Phaedo, The, 26

Plato, 26-30, 48, 49, 58, 104, 114, 115, 129, 140, 218, 229, 244

Plotinus, 232-33, 235, 236, 245

Positivism, of Comte, 169-70. See also Logical positivism

Pragmatism, 134, 149, 204, 206

Proofs, of God's existence, 73-82, 218-21, 242

Protein molecule, 75

Ptolemaic system, 55 et seq.

Ptolemy, 55, 57, 58, 59

Punishment, justification of, 256-57

Pythagoreans, the, 12

Quantum theory, 24

Randall, J. H., 5

Reader's Digest, 88

Realism, 206

"Reflection," 159

Reincarnation, 217, 238

Relativism, ethical, 110-18, 156, 259-77

Relativity, 24, 243

Remoteness, of God, 86, 89, 90

Responsibility, moral, 121, 171, 256-58

Romanticism, 54, 146, 147, 180, 187, 199-207

Rousseau, J. J., 199

Royce, Josiah, 147, 180, 199

Russell, Bertrand, 100, 102, 136, 181

Sacraments, 87 Sankhya, The, 241

Santayana, George, 13

Saturn, 73, 74

Schlick, Moritz, 147

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 198

Self-preservation, as a common human purpose, 264-66

Shelley, P. B., 40, 134, 187, 202, 205

Shenstone, A. G., 5

Siam, 241

Socrates, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 48, 97,104, 129, 186, 227, 270

Solipsism, 131

Spinoza, Benedict, 148, 244

Stalin, Joseph, 261

Stevens, George, 5

Subjectivism, of economic values, 33, 34, 37, 38; ethical, 32, 35, 36, 37 et seq., 104, 105, 107, 109, 110, 113, 156, 175-76, 259, 260, 262, 263,277

Surangama Sutra, The, 235

Swinburne, A. G., 205

Teleology, teleological explanation, 19 et seq., 97 et seq., 151

Tennyson, Alfred, 187, 203, 205

Thales, 30

Trinity, the, 217

Upanishads, The, 225, 232, 235, 236, 237,242

Vaihinger, H., 134, 147, 149, 168, 170-72, 174, 177

Values, see Objectivism; Subjectivism

Voltaire, F. M. A., 85

Whitehead, A. N., 5, 181, 207

Wordsworth, William, 134, 187, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204

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W.T. Stace: Theory of Existence and Knowledge

The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.
         ... W. T. Stace, Religion and the Modern Mind