thematic index 461
relation to, 16; redemption from, 11– 13; as
sacrifi ce, purpose of, 3; terribleness of, 2– 4
Death, terror of: acknowledging, 393– 397;
confronting, 4– 5, 33, 356– 357, 361– 362;
eff ect on conscious life lived, 3– 5, 220;
the fall toward, 1– 5; insatiability of desire
and, 18, 21, 391; overcoming of the world
approach, 76, 88; suppressing, methods of,
361– 362
Deep freedom: belittlement and, 29– 30;
consequences of, 34; elements of, 29– 30,
440– 442; equality of respect and
opportunity, 296– 297, 314– 323; features of
a cooperative regime for, 327– 336; ideal of,
- See also Social framework, revising the
Defects in the human condition: ac cep tance,
benefi ts of, 210; acknowledging, for the
religion of the future, 216– 221, 393– 397;
concept, 439– 440; denial of, consequences,
25– 26, 33– 34, 179, 218– 219, 252– 253, 256,
359– 361; engagement as response to,
396– 397; function of, 33– 34; humanization
of the world approach, 117– 118; overcoming,
88– 89, 216– 217; Prometheanism’s response
to, 31, 33, 142, 256, 343; religion and the,
35– 39, 55– 58; self- transformation through
confronting, 356– 365; struggle with the
world approach, 180– 181. See also specifi c
defects
Democracy: criticism of religion in a,
259– 261; ideal of genius of ordinary
persons, 222, 437. See also Free society
Desire: ambivalence toward, 20; emptiness
of, 18, 19, 32; mimetic character of, 19– 20,
32, 407; projected quality of, 20– 21, 407.
See also Insatiability of desire
Despair, sin of, 166– 167
Divinization, virtues of, 382– 387, 427, 432
Dying only once, 368, 407, 421, 430, 442
Education: empowerment and, 307– 308; in a
free society, 295– 296; future- enabling, 311;
imagination and, 241; mummifi cation
re sis tance through, 413– 414; revising,
methods for, 212
Educational innovation, lack of, 223
Empowerment: belittlement and, 26– 27;
economic and educational means for,
307– 308; false forms of, 26– 27; fantasy
of, 214, 224; institutional reconstruction
and, 293– 294, 440– 442; liberalism’s
commitment to, 314– 315; Prometheanism
and, 256
Emptiness doctrine (sunyata), 62
Engagement: defects in the human condition
repaired, 396– 397; mummifi cation
re sis tance through, 428– 430; mutilation,
rescue from, 402– 403; overcoming of the
world approach, 80– 84; revolution and,
243– 244; struggle with the world
orientation to, 188– 195, 213, 215; virtues
supporting, 379– 382. See also Estrange-
ment from life, overcoming
Engagement- transcendence dialectic, 142,
181, 193– 194
Enlightenment, the, 449
Enthusiasm virtue of purifi cation, 379– 381,
387
Equality- freedom relationship, 314– 323
Equality of respect and opportunity, 296– 297,
314– 323
Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography
(Momigliano), 450
Estrangement from life, overcoming: defects
in the human condition, recognizing for,
219– 221; false forms of, 396; po liti cal
transformation of society and, 292– 293;
possibility of, 5; Prometheanism and,
193– 194, 221; reward of, 439; threats to,
- See also Engagement
Eternity, aspiration of, 343
Ethical universalism, 344– 352, 370
Ethic of honor and dominion, 79– 80
Ethic of inclusive solidarity and fellow
feeling, 376, 454
Ethic of martial valor, 32, 44– 46, 79– 80, 376
Eudaimonism, 96
Existential groundlessness, 6– 7, 10– 16
Existentialism, 167
Fairness virtue of connection, 374– 375, 387
Faith: belief- disbelief halfway house, 123– 125,
261– 264; commitment without grounds
concept, 58– 60, 124, 203, 251, 272, 383– 384;
family and community as basis of, 283;
psychology and sociology of, 273– 275;
reasons for, 283– 284; scandals of reason
and the diffi culty of, 225– 231; supernatu-
ralism and, 225– 226; as wager, 59
Faithful, requirements of the, 48
Fecundity, 342, 422
Federalism, 305
