How To Be An Agnostic

Index

Self 121
and ego 119–20, 134
self-consciousness 64, 69, 78
Seneca 20, 206, 215
Shakespeare, William 11, 114,
255
silence 170–5, 177–8, 189–90,
193, 212, 225, 256
Singer, Peter 121
Siwa oracle 32
Socrates 4–5, 18, 19, 20–47, 42 ,
49, 63, 87–9, 93, 122, 129,
145, 207, 211, 213, 234, 241,
244
agonistic wisdom of 22–5,
26–7, 33–5, 37–8, 43–6, 47,
184, 201–2, 203–6, 220, 221,
222–3, 258
daemon of 39–42, 124, 223
death 47, 211–12
and Delphic oracle 22–5, 30,
31, 32, 33
disillusionment with
science 88–91, 101
as lover 29–30, 38, 40–3, 45,
198, 223
method of questioning 125,
226
philosophical creed 23
philosophical life 20–47, 215,
217
as religious 35–9, 43, 47,
222–3, 224–5
trial 29–30, 39
unpopularity of 24, 28
and virtue ethics 101
Socratic exercises 209–13, 225
Sophists 28
Sophocles 24
soul 44–5, 236–9, 240
Spinoza, Benedict de 238
spiritual 3–4, 18
Stardust probe 173

Stenger, Victor 249

Stephen, Leslie 246–8

Stevens, Wallace 119

Stoicism 213–14, 215

sublime 114, 245–6, 256, 260

suffering 130–1, 135, 185,

186–7, 190

Swimme, Brian 68, 69

Swinburne, Richard 168–9

tawhid 165

technology 10, 17, 87 , 111

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 48

‘theory of everything’ 56, 58, 65

therapy 256–7

Thuan, Trinh Xuan 66

Tillich, Paul 5, 119, 153

Toynbee, Polly 140

Traherne, Thomas 53, 75

transcendent 121, 124, 133, 136,

149

Trinity, doctrine of 155, 159–60

truth 117–20, 176

tsunami disaster (2004) 190–1,

193

Turner, Denys 141, 143, 150–1

Universe Story 68–70

utilitarianism 94, 100

van Gogh, Vincent 49

Victorians 11, 15

virtue ethics 101–4

Voltaire 191

Wahhabism 164

waiting, practice of 228

Warnock, Mary 100

Weber, Max 114

Weil, Simone 16–17, 102

Weinberg, Steven 57–8

Weston, Frank 137–8

Wheeler, John 66, 67