thematic index 463Innovation: cooperative practices of, 244,
324– 331, 337; economic growth and, 169;
educational, lack of, 223; institutional,
311– 312, 403; repetition serving, 412;
revolution and, 211– 212
Insatiability of desire: basis for/sources of,
17– 19; confronting the terror of, 358– 359;
depth of the self in the, 135; elements of,
390– 391; engagement and, 396– 397;
freedom from, possibility of, 18– 19, 390;
groundlessness relation to, 21; humaniza-
tion of the world approach, 117– 118; longing
for the absolute in, 178, 181, 391; mortality
and, 18, 21, 391; overcoming, possibility of,
21– 23; overcoming of the world approach,
77, 88; Prometheanism’s remedy for, 33; for
unconditional ac cep tance, 358– 359,
390– 391. See also Desire
Institutional design, in the development of
productivity, 324– 326
Institutional redesign: belittlement and,
311– 312, 403; compensatory redistribution
in the absence of, 294, 314– 318; cooperation
and, 326– 328; deep freedom and, 314– 323;
free society, implications for, 308– 314;
revolution and failure in, 223, 231– 236.
See also Social framework, revising the
Invulnerability: promise of, 69; search for,
194; serenity through, 68– 69, 74, 82– 84
Islam: Axial Age thesis and, 448– 449;
compromised message of, 248; ethical
universalism, 352; exemplary of struggle
with the world, 40, 52, 183, 236, 258;
fossilization of, 186– 187; God in, 52, 108,
270; love vs. altruism in, 175; mystical
tradition in, 62, 167, 218, 248, 270; religion
as concept and term, rejection of, 49, 51;
religion of the future, role in, 258– 259, 273,
280; success, characteristics of, 246;
transcendence- immanence dialectic, 147;
veneration for the law, 163– 164, 182, 200,
233, 248, 276. See also Salvation religions
Jansenism, 59
Jen in Confucianism, 45
Judaism: compromised message of, 248;
ethical universalism, 352; exemplary of
struggle with the world, 183, 236, 258;
fossilization of, 186– 187; God in, 52, 108,
270; love vs. altruism in, 175; mystical
tradition in, 62, 167, 218, 248, 270; religion
as concept and term, rejection of, 49, 51;
religion of the future, role in, 258– 259, 273,
280; transcendence- immanence dialectic,
147; veneration for the law, 164, 182, 200,
233, 235– 236, 276. See also Salvation
religions
Kaballah, 248
Kenosis, 379, 418
Labor: cooperation as a division in, 93,
324– 325; productivity through institu-
tional design, 324– 326. See also Wa ge
labor giving way to free labor
Law, the: private and public, 104; religion of,
233– 235, 248; veneration of, 163– 164, 182,
200, 233, 248, 276
Laws of nature, 8– 10, 65– 67, 127– 129, 139– 140,
225, 264– 266, 389. See also Nature
Lebensanschauung (Simmel), 449
Left and Right, distinction between:
inadequate, 314– 317; redrawn, 320– 323
Legalism, 205
Liberalism: classical, 293– 294; deep equality,
commitment to, 315, 319– 321; empower-
ment, commitment to, 314– 315; institu-
tional dogma, 182; institutional formula,
309; politics and religious conviction
separated, 259– 260; of the religious
individualist, 234; religious revolution,
failure to incite, 222
Love: altruism vs., 46, 172– 174, 180, 351;
cooperation vs., 324; cost of, 431; defi ning
attribute of, 392; freedom from desire
through, 18; greatness relation to, 376, 434,
437; lack of, rescuing mankind from, 456;
longing and, 173, 178– 179, 181; mummifi ca-
tion re sis tance and, 430– 432; or ga niz ing
role in moral experience, 178– 179;
requirements for, 377; romantic distortion
of, 175– 183; transcendence through,
343– 344
Lutheran Reformed Church, 145
Ma’at (Assmann), 453
Madhyamaka Buddhism, 62
Mahayana Buddhism, 79, 170, 206
Manichaeism, 453
Market economy, 137– 138, 169, 312– 313
Marriage, 177
Martial heroic ethic, 32, 44– 46, 79– 80, 376