German language
Germans
Ghost in the Machine
Gilgamesh epic
God; absence of; arguments for existence of; Cartesian knowledge of; divine creation by; flood story and
German language as gift from; mindfulness and; monotheism and
good nature
goodness
Grand Being
gravity effect
Great Awakenings
Gregory of Nyssa
Grotius, Hugo; On the Truth of the Christian Religion
guilt
Haldane, J. B. S.
Hamilton, William
Hegel, G. W. F.
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Heraclitus
Herodotus
history; Fichte and; Spengler and; transformative concept and
Hitler, Adolf
hoaxing
Horst Wessel Lied
How to Read the Bible (Kugel)
Hubble, Edwin
humanism
humankind; assumptions and conclusions by; complexity of behavior of; Comte theory of; exceptionalism of; experience and; Freudian biological origins theory of; higher-order questions of; individual mind and; internalized prohibitions and; kinship with God of; language and; as microcosm; mind’s self-awareness and; multiverse hypothesis and; origins of; parscientific defining of; positivism on; primitivity and; primordial self and; purpose of life and; questions about; religion and; self-alienation and; self-interest and; sense of emptiness and; shrinking importance of; unique qualities of; universe and
human nature; altruism and (see altruism); debunking and; Freudian theory of; genes and; high estimate of; parascientific literature on; subjectivity and; values and
Humphrey, N. K.
Huxley, Thomas H.
hypertrophy
hypocrites
hypothesis
“I am,”
idea, as meme
illusory rewards
imitation, meme and
immigrants
imponderables
inauthenticity
incest prohibition
incremental changes
indeterminacy
individual felt experience
information processing
insect altruism
insight
intelligent life
intention, accident vs.
interfamilial crimes
internalization
Internet
interpretation
Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud)
introspection
intuition
James, William; definition of religion of; on subjectivity; Varieties of Religious Experience, Judaism. See also anti-Semitism Jung, Carl, justice
Kant, Immanuel
kinship altruism; drowning child example and; genetic replication and
knowledge; indeterminacy and; parascientific certainty and; positivism and
Krebs, John
Kugel, James L.; How to Read the Bible
language; German speakers and
laws of nature
Le Bon, Gustave
Leibniz, Gottfried, libido
life, purpose and meaning of
limited resources
love
Lueger, Karl
Luther, Martin
lying
malaise
Malthus, Thomas Robert; Theory of Population
marriage customs
martyrdom
Marx, Karl
mass behavior
materialism
materiality, nonmateriality vs.
mating
Maurras, Charles
Mead, Margaret
Melville, Herman
meme; characteristic of; examples of; origins of
memory; repression of
mental phenomena. See mind
Mesopotamia
metaphysics; deconstruction of; Descartes and; dictionary definition of; rejection of
microorganisms
Miller, Geoffrey
mind: as attribute of God; awareness of; as brain activity; brain injury and; common-sense notions of; data and; Dawkins view of; definitions of; Descartes view of; elusiveness of; as felt individual experience; Freudian narrative of; higher acts of; “imponderables” and; introspection and; meme and; modern thought on; parascientific view of; as passive conduit; perils of; as physical vs. nonphysical; polemic against; proofs of existence of; reality and; reductionist understanding of; religion and; scale of reality and; science and; unvarying condition of; Wilson theory of. See also soul; subjectivity
mind-body dichotomy
modern thought; authentic schism in; consistency and; contemporary era and; core assumption of; debunking and; Freudianism and; incompatible schools with; long duration of; malaise and; mind and, 56; myth of “the modern” and; “neo-” and “post-” prefixes and; post-metaphysical discussion and; science and; sense of emptiness and; on subjective experience; as threshold event; unifying principle behind
monads
monism
monotheism
morality; as law of nature
Moses
Moses and Monotheism (Freud)
motives; for altruism; deceptive strategies for
multiverse
mystery
mysticism
mythic past
myths; Freudian single universal
Napoleon
national identity
natural selection; morality vs. See also evolution theory Nazis
neo-Darwinism; on goal of brain evolution; hypertrophy and; incremental developmental changes and
neologism
“neo-” prefix
nervous system
neurosis
Newton, Isaac
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Noble Savage
nonmateriality, materiality vs.
nostalgia politics. See mythic past
nuclear energy
objectivity; subjectivity vs.
observation
occultism. See parapsychology “oceanic feeling,”
Oedipal drama. See parricide Old Testament. See Bible On Human Nature (Wilson)
On the Truth of the Christian Religion (Grotius)
ontogeny
ontology
Origin of Species, The (Darwin)
origins. See also creation overpopulation
paganism
pair bonding
pan-Germanist movement
parapsychology
parascientific literature; absence of mind from; actual science vs.; altruism and; characterizing traits of; contributors to; definition of; explanatory model and; meme concept as example of; reality and; reasoning of; religious antagonism of; soul and; style of argument of; subjectivity and; vulnerable arguments of
“parent infusorium,”
parricide
pathology
perception
persecution, religious
personality
philology
philosophy
photon, splitting of
physical laws; accidental outcomes of
physics; quantum
pineal gland
Pinker, Steven; The Blank Slate; on mind; on religion; on self; on senses; on soul
pleasure principle
Plutarch
population growth
positivism; parascientific genre and; religious antagonism of
postmodern hermeneutics
“post-” prefix
post-structuralism
poverty
precognition
prefrontal cortex
pretense
primal father theory. See also parricide
primal horde
primal innocence
primitivity; evolution theory and; parascientific literature and
prisoner’s dilemma
profanity
profundity
progress
protective devices
protozoon
psychoanalysis
psychology; evolutionary. See also behaviorism; Freud, Sigmund
psychosis
purpose of life
quantum physics
questions
racial nationalism; language of fear and