460 thematic index
Character as destiny, 406
Character- defying character, 367– 368, 377
Christianity: antinomian element, 277;
Axial Age thesis and, 448– 449; ethical
universalism, 352; exemplary of salvation
religions, 52, 183, 236, 258; fossilization of,
186– 187; God in, 52, 108; love vs. altruism
in, 174– 175, 180; mysteries of the Trinity
and the Incarnation, 173– 174, 227, 272,
279, 288; mystical tradition in, 62, 167;
orientation to the future good, 189;
success, characteristics of, 246, 248;
transcendence- immanence dialectic, 147
Christianity as a point of departure for
revolution, obstacles to: belief, family as
reason for, 273– 275; doctrine formulated
within Greek philosophy, 126, 143– 145,
276, 279– 280; exclusivity, claim to,
284– 285; faith over reason, 282– 284; God,
dependence on, 282– 287; grace over work,
286; salvation, terror of, 282; scandals of
reason, 264– 273; society, compromises
made with, 276– 279; summary, 287– 289
Church, the, 52
Circumstance- transcendence dialectic,
164, 167
Classical ontology project, 143– 146, 159– 160,
208, 279– 280
Class society: cooperative regimes and,
327– 328, 336– 337; deep freedom,
consequences for, 321– 322; disrupting
the insulation of, 169– 170; ethic of the
ruling and fi ghting classes, 44– 46; free
society, implications for, 296; hierarchical
segmentation, 43– 46, 100– 102; justifi cation
for, 318, 322, 325; mummifi cation and, 408
Commitment without grounds, 58– 60, 124,
203, 251, 272, 298– 299, 383– 384
Community of belief, 246– 247, 283
Compassion, 13– 14, 78, 206, 375, 387, 418
Competition: basis for, 19; cooperative, 331– 334
Conduct of life in the religion of the future:
concept, 440; enhancement of life and,
341– 344, 379; the reward, 438– 439;
self- others relationships in, 343– 344,
370– 378; sharing in the divine through,
341– 344; societal constraints, 383.
See also Self- transformation
Conduct of life virtues: of connection, 370– 378,
387, 427; of divinization, 382– 387, 427, 432;
of purifi cation, 378– 382, 387, 418, 427
Confucianism: altruism in, 171, 173;
cosmotheism, rejection of, 52; the divine
in, 107, 198, 254; ethical universalism, 352;
ethic of roles, 105; exemplary of humaniz-
ing the world, 40, 41, 47, 49, 107, 197,
236, 445; groundlessness, response to, 14;
revolution, limitations for, 204; self- others
relationships, 107– 108; success, characteris-
tics of, 237, 247; transcendence- immanence
dialectic, 206, 448, 451. See also Confucius
Connection, virtues of, 370– 378, 387, 427. See
also Self- others relationships
Consciousness: boundary experience of,
388– 390; Cartesian, 148; death of, 3– 5;
individuated, the self as, 148; mark of, 3;
the mind as, 98, 154, 161; mindfulness
aspect of, 388; paradox of, 98; selfh ood
and, 3– 4; time and, 161
Conservatives, commitment to shallow
freedom, 315– 316, 320
Consonance- dissonance relation in music,
410– 411
Converts/conversion experience, 202, 273, 283
Cooperation: basis for, 19; in a free society,
297; higher forms of, 324– 340, 393;
institutional redesign and, 326– 328; love
vs., 324; roles and conventions of, 92– 93,
97, 100– 101; transcendence through,
343– 344
Cooperative regime: class society in a,
327– 328, 336– 337; deep freedom and,
327– 338; imagination in reshaping,
335– 340; innovation in a, 244, 324– 331,
337; novelty and competitive selection in a,
331– 334
Corpus Christi sermon (Aquinas), 286, 287
Cosmotheism, 38, 40– 41, 43, 449
Courage virtue of connection, 375– 378
Course of life, consequence of the particularity
of, 24– 25
Course of life, formative incidents in the:
decentering, 387– 393; downfall, 393– 397;
mummifi cation, 405– 438; mutilation,
397– 405
Crisis, change dependent on, 86, 186, 313
Crisis without crisis, 338
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 152, 426
Daoism, 62
Death: compensation for, 28– 29, 31;
consolations promised, 4; groundlessness