Addiction, 17, 20, 82, 358, 391
Agape, 45, 174, 376, 382
Agrarian- bureaucratic states, 43– 44, 100, 111,
169, 240, 318, 324, 453– 455
Altruism: love vs., 46, 172– 174, 180, 351;
resisting mummifi cation, 417– 418; in
self- others relationships, 155– 156,
170– 175, 371, 392
Altruism principle, 155– 156
Analects, 45, 94, 110
Antinomianism, 277
Apostasy, right of, 299
Apostasy principle, 303– 310
Apostolic succession doctrine, 52
Aristotelian Averroists, 147
Art as substitute for religion, 60– 61
Aspiration, morality of, 31
Attentiveness virtue of purifi cation,
381– 382, 387
Aver roism, 147
Axial Age and Its Consequences, Th e (Bellah
and Joas, eds.), 447, 450
“Th e Axial Age in Global History” (Wit-
trock), 450
Axial Age thesis, 38, 445– 456
Being and Time (Heidegger), 220, 362, 365
Belated paganism, 191– 193, 195
Belief- disbelief halfway house, 123– 125,
261– 264
Belittlement: ac cep tance, consequences of,
376; antidotes to, 26– 27, 29– 30, 401– 404;
deep freedom and, 29– 30; as defect,
rejection of, 223, 253, 279, 363– 364;
divinization virtues and, 382– 387;
empowerment and, 26– 27; facing the
trials of, 23– 25; as fate, rejection of, 356;
humanization of the world approach,
117– 118, 120; institutional arrangements
overcoming, 297, 401– 404; overcoming,
hope of, 35; overcoming of the world
approach, 76– 77; po liti cal transformation
of society to escape, 292– 293; responses
to, false forms of, 26– 34; sources of, 355;
susceptibility to, repairing, 26– 27, 210
Benevolence: humanization of the world
approach, 115– 116; love vs., 46, 431;
overcoming of the world approach, 63,
68, 74– 77; selfl ess, ethic of, 63; in
self- others relationships, 171, 174– 175
Body as corpse, the, 2
Buddhism: Axial transformation thesis and,
448; denial of mortality, 216; the divine
in, 52, 227, 254; ethical universalism, 352;
exemplary of overcoming the world, 40, 41,
48, 62, 197, 236, 394, 445; personal deity in,
49; the self in, 422; success, characteristics
of, 237, 246– 247; transcendence-
immanence dialectic, 451; transcendence
in, 107, 206. See also Buddha
Caste system, 102, 330
Change, crisis as the condition for, 86,
313, 338
Change of change, 66, 161, 265
Character, 421– 422