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Quisling, Vidkun,
330
–31
“Quit thinking,” 387,
396
Raban, Jonathan,
382
–83
race,
139
–41,
235
,
315
–22,
333
–34,
395
,
421
,
452
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See also
civil rights movement
rationality:
counterculture and,
411
desire and,
543
Futurists and,
210
holiday from,
460
–62
Marxism and,
211
minimalist art and,
392
Nazis and,
315
–16
phenomenology and,
75
religion and,
526
–29
spontaneity and,
394
See also
specific person’s views
Rawls, John,
502
–3
Read, Herbert,
191
reality/realism:
Abstract Expressionism and,
399
“beat” writing and,
404
counterculture and,
414
,
419
,
429
drugs and,
441
final,
136
and goal of religion,
456
Impressionism and,
111
minimalist art and,
391
modern art and,
113
perception of,
72
Platonic tradition and,
60
poetry and,
549
reason and,
72
scientific,
514
surrealism and,
199
in twentieth-century art,
124
See also
specific person’s views
reason:
choice and,
513
existentialists and,
338
Gifford Lectures and,
58
n
moral whole and secular,
3
reality and,
72
religion as based on,
3
science and,
525
shadow culture and,
177
See also
specific person’s views
rebellion.
See
revolution
reciprocal enlightenment concept, Shaw’s,
105
reciprocity,
555
redemption,
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,
92
,
146
,
189
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192
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373
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377
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378
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515
,
546
reflection,
72
,
76
n,
224
,
267
,
517
–18
reincarnation,
500
Reisner, Rob,
393
–94
relationships,
94
–97,
265
,
365
,
383
,
436
,
439
,
526
.
See also
specific person’s views
relativity theory,
490
,
495
,
516
,
545
religion:
as addiction,
444
aim/function of,
13
,
17
,
202
,
391
,
456
basis of,
3
benefits of,
15
–16
and church-state relations,
526
–29
religion (
continued
)
civil,
533
as combatting bad behavior,
15
–16
counterculture and,
416
decline in,
8
–11,
14
,
21
,
23
–24,
28
of early man,
85
evolution as,
487
–88
evolution of,
471
,
474
–75,
479
,
481
,
536
factories as substitutes for,
217
–18
as failure,
325
festivity as hallmark of,
67
as “habit of action,” 513
as ideology,
29
importance of,
497
as infantilism,
285
lifespan of,
472
–73
as mental illness,
86
multidisplinary research about,
472
need for,
86
need for research about,
474
neurosis as private,
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–89
of no religion,
416
origin of,
527
primitive,
145
promises of,
281
reassurance from,
13
religious distinguished from,
296
–97
retreat from,
29
root of,
65
secular world’s relationship to,
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–6,
526
–27,
528
shadow culture and,
177
–79
as “slave morality,” 204,
209
success as,
250
universality of,
28
–29
without theology,
480
–81
See also
specific person’s views or topic
“religion of the blood” concept,
317
,
319
,
323
religious atheist: Dworkin’s views about,
519
,
522
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste,
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,
300
Resistance, French,
336
,
338
,
339
,
346
,
389
,
390
respect:
as layer of ethics,
516
See also
dignity
responsibility,
103
,
344
,
350
,
383
,
444
,
513
,
519
–22,
554
responsiveness: as layer of ethics,
516
Richards, Mary Caroline,
394
,
402
rights: origins of,
534
Rilke, Rainer Maria,
227
–32
being and,
231
Csikszentmihalyi and,
534
death of,
232
Die Freistatt
, as publisher for,
157
and experience,
550
Heidegger and,
227
and human beings,
230
and imagination,
232
,
237
,
553
–54
influences on,
228
Mallarmé’s influence on,
147
and meaning,
230
metaphor use by,
231
–32
personal and professional background of,
227
–28
and science,
229
and self,
231
Spiegelberg and,
413
and truth,
229
and universe,
229
views about world of,
148
–49
Rilke, Rainer Maria—works by:
Duino Elegies,
228
“The Passing,” 229
Sonnets to Orpheus,
228
Rimbaud, Arthur,
71
,
72
–73,
123
,
422
rituals,
67
,
135
,
145
,
215
,
216
,
242
,
391
,
473
,
555
Ritzkrieg,
335
“RNA world,” 510
Robinson, John,
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–86
Roche, G. T.,
440
–41
Rogers, Carl,
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,
361
,
362
,
363
–66,
368
,
370
,
415
“romance”: Rorty’s views about,
515
Romanticism,
23
,
92
,
123
,
125
,
161
,
264
,
274
,
420
,
465
Rorty, Richard,
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,
465
–68,
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–16,
524
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528
,
538
,
546
,
547
,
554
,
556
The Myth of the Twentieth Century
by,
316
–19,
321
,
322
Rosenberg, Harold,
397
–98
Rosenthal, Bernice Glazer,
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,
206
,
207
,
210
,
211
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212
,
214
Roszak, Theodore,
410
,
411
–12,
425
–30,
447
,
485
,
486
,
487
,
490
–91
Roth, Philip,
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–8,
430
,
447
,
537
,
538
,
543
Rothchild, Paul,
421
–23
Roughgarden, Joan,
10
–11
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
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203
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346
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357
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450
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503
,
525
rules,
223
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232
,
291
,
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294
,
357
,
404
,
503
anxiety and,
308
awards and honors for,
303
belief and,
309
as Cambridge Conversazione Society member,
78
at Cambridge University,
303
–4
and children,
308
communism and,
307
community and,
308
conscience and,
308
death of,
303
delight and,
307
–8
Dewey’s debates with,
60
and ecstasy,
440
and education,
308
ethics and,
308
and existence,
507
and facts,
309
and good,
308
and happiness,
307
,
308
,
435
,
436
–37
and humanism,
307
and intuition,
76
and Lawrence’s “quit thinking” advice,
271
,
387
and mathematics,
303
–4
and matter,
309
and Moore’s influence,
79
and morals,
308
and nature,
307
passions of,
303
personal and professional background of,
303
and religion,
306
–7
science and,
308
and sex,
308
and sin,
309
and suffering,
303
Vienna Circle and,
273
Wittgenstein and,
302
–3
work/workers and,
308
Russell, Bertrand—works by:
Autobiography,
78
Behaviorism and Values,
306
The Conquest of Happiness,
306
The Danger of Creed Wars,
306
Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness,
306
Satan in the Suburbs,
306
Why I Am Not a Christian,
306
Russia:
holidays in,
218
intelligentsia in,
205
–6
Marxism in,
202
Russia (
continued
)
poetry in,
206
religion in,
204
–6
revolutions/civil war in,
201
,
213
,
216
Rosenberg and,
316
Russell’s views about,
303
and Soviet troops at Auschwitz,
330
theosophy in,
180
World War I and,
190
,
192
,
200
–201
See also
Bolsheviks; communism; Marxism;
specific person’s views
Safranski, Rudiger,
221
–22
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de,
342
–45,
347
,
399
Saint-Point, Valentine de,
47
,
543
saintliness: James’s (William) views about,
58
salvation:
belief as basis of,
29
communism and,
215
drugs and,
416
Expressionism and,
121
happiness and,
432
machines and,
91
postmodernism and,
499
and “psychological turn” in America,
362
Russian intelligentsia views about,
206
science as,
487
–88
self-realization as replacement for,
368
size of life and,
544
–45
“thingness” as alternative to,
74
See also
specific person’s views
Samurai (philosopher-kings): Wells’s views about,
137
Santayana, George,
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–70,
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96
,
108
,
128
,
161
,
245
,
537
–38,
539
,
546
,
553
–54
Sartre, Jean-Paul,
334
–40,
345
–49
art/artists and,
349
Beckett’s views about,
389
change and,
346
community and,
349
Csikszentmihalyi and,
534
as existentialist,
334
–36
and freedom,
346
,
347
–48,
349
,
350
French Resistance and,
334
and fulfillment,
460
and God is dead,
347
and good,
347
and human nature,
347
and humanism,
349
and identity,
346
life and,
350
and love,
349
Merleau-Ponty lectures and,
340
and morals,
349
petites heureuses
of,
182
,
460
,
554
and poetry,
147
–48
and pragmatism,
347
and reality,
349
and responsibility,
350
salvation and,
350
and sin,
350
and singing,
505
Temps modernes
journal and,
338
–39
“tyranny of concepts” of,
398
and universality,
349
World War II impact on,
346
–47
Sartre, Jean-Paul—works by:
“Existentialism Is a Humanism” (lecture),
335
,
338
,
346
–47
Les petites heureuses,
182
Les Temps modernes,
338,
339
Mallarmé, or the Poet of Nothingness,
147
“Portrait of the Anti-Semite,” 346
Saturday Club.
See
Metaphysical Club
Saxon tradition,
321
Schoenberg, Arnold,
180
–81
Schopenhauer, Arthur,
23
,
163
,
301
,
436
,
533
Schumpeter, Joseph,
332
Schwitters, Kurt,
119
science:
achievements of,
471
as alternative to religion,
540
art compared with,
455
capitalism and,
540
children’s education in,
541
communism and,
215
counterculture and,
410
,
413
,
426
,
427
,
428
engagement with,
542
existentialists and,
336
–37
humanities’ link with,
483
–85
and ideal world,
494
Impressionism and,
113
–14
influence on psychology of,
351
Marxism and,
213
–14
meaning of life and,
29
and move away from materialism,
19
as myth,
481
naming and,
550
nature and,
541
in 1950s,
368
opposition to/criticisms of,
55
,
58
n,
541
philosophy and,
516
philosophy of,
492
“poetic,” 470
post–World War II,
351
postmodernism and,
499
psychoanalysis as,
89
as realm of life,
554
reasoning of,
525
of religion,
59
religion and,
11
,
24
,
59
,
218
,
469
–72,
515
,
523
,
540
as salvation,
487
–88
secularization and,
540
–41
of the soul,
485
–86
successes of,
506
surrealism and,
198
unfitness of,
27
–29
Vienna Circle and,
274
See also
evolution;
specific person’s views or science
scientists: emotional reactions of,
5
,
522
–23
scorn,
349
–50
Scriabin, Alexander,
180
–81,
190
Scythians,
212
–13
séances,
169
,
173
,
174
,
179
,
180
,
288
Second World War.
See
World War II
“Secret Germany,” George’s,
154
,
157
–60
secularism:
aim of,
539
apotheosis of,
498
–99
communism and,
214
–17
as complementary to religion,
11
–12
education and,
240
–41
effects of,
238
–43
globalization and,
28
happiness and,
432
high point of,
7
how to find meaning in,
8
Impressionism and,
113
as lacking in something,
5
modern art and,
111
as narrative of progress,
539
in 1950s,
368
“permissive turn” and,
331
relationship of religion to,
2
–6,
526
–27,
528
and religion as sociology,
11
–13
science and,
540
–41
spread of,
497
theothanatology and,
382
,
383
,
384
,
385
See also
specific person’s views
security,
11
–13,
87
,
104
,
116
,
121
,
243
,
415
,
431
,
434
,
438
self:
aim of life and,
516
beauty and,
536
counterculture’s views about,
411
,
414
,
420
,
427
,
428
,
437
“discursive Christianity” and,
28
enlargement of,
516
essential,
162
giving of,
102
illusions about,
254
self (
continued
)
and importance of poetry,
147
Jewish views about,
377
number of,
64
optimism about,
368
porous versus buffered,
6
–8
psychoanalysis and,
65
responsibility to,
554
self-contained,
64
as superstition,
130
therapeutic approach and,
446
See also
specific person’s views