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THE MAN OF FLESH AND BONE
Philosophy and the concrete man—The man Kant, the manButler, and the man Spinoza—Unity and continuity of theperson—Man an end not a means—Intellectual necessitiesand necessities of the heart and the will—Tragic sense oflife in men and in peoples
THE STARTING-POINT
Tragedy of Paradise—Disease an element of progress—Necessityof knowing in order to live—Instinct of preservation andinstinct of perpetuation—The sensible world and the idealworld—Practical starting-point of all philosophy—Knowledgean end in itself?—The man Descartes—The longingnot to die
THE HUNGER OF IMMORTALITY
Thirst of being—Cult of immortality—Plato's "glorious risk"—Materialism—Paul's discourse to the Athenians—Intoleranceof the intellectuals—Craving for fame—Strugglefor survival
THE ESSENCE OF CATHOLICISM
Immortality and resurrection—Development of idea of immortalityin Judaic and Hellenic religions—Paul and thedogma of the resurrection—Athanasius—Sacrament of theEucharist—Lutheranism—Modernism—The Catholicethic—Scholasticism—The Catholic solution
THE RATIONALIST DISSOLUTION
Materialism—Concept of substance—Substantiality of thesoul—Berkeley—Myers—Spencer—Combat of life withreason—Theological advocacy—Odium anti-theologicum—Therationalist attitude—Spinoza—Nietzsche—Truth and consolation
IN THE DEPTHS OF THE ABYSS
Passionate doubt and Cartesian doubt—Irrationality of theproblem of immortality—Will and intelligence—Vitalismand rationalism—Uncertainty as basis of faith—The ethicof despair—Pragmatical justification of despair—Summaryof preceding criticism
LOVE, SUFFERING, PITY, AND PERSONALITY
Sexual love—Spiritual love—Tragic love—Love and pity—Personalizingfaculty of love—God the Personalization ofthe All—Anthropomorphic tendency—Consciousness of theUniverse—What is Truth?—Finality of the Universe
FROM GOD TO GOD