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à Kempis, Schopenhauer and, 167.

Amiel, 217.

amoralist, 274, 276.

Antigone, 264.

a posteriori, 105.

a priori, 105, 137.

Aquinas, 24, 308.

Aristotle, 24, 25, 89, 289, 290.

art, and the universal, 170–172;

individuates, 294–296.

asceticism, Schopenhauer on, 176–178.

assent, Newman’s “Grammar of,” 242.

aviditas vitae, Huxley’s, 205.

Bacon, Francis, 57, 104, 247, 248.

Balfour, 246, 247.

beautiful, Schopenhauer’s theory of the, 170–172.

Berti, Vita di Giordano Bruno, 11.

body, and mind, 45, 46.

Bourdeau, J., 241, 242.

Bourdeau, L., 223–226.

Bourget, “Le Disciple,” 68–95.

Brahminism, Schopenhauer and, 167.

Browning, 203.

Bruno, iii,

Mocenigo’s denunciation of, 3–8;

trial at Venice, 9–18;

recantation, 18;

new astronomy, 18–21;

ethical and religious consequences, 21–26;

“new philosophy,” pantheism, 29–31;

Schoppius on sentence and execution of, 33–34;

and Spinoza, 39, 40; 197.

Buddhism, Schopenhauer and, 167, 178, 179, 189.

cannibals, Melville on, 251–253;

Montaigne on, 253–256.

categorical, good, ought, see imperative.

Christianity, Kant and, 146, 147;

Schopenhauer and, 167;

Nietzsche and, 187, 206;

its intellectual task, 300.

civilization, a decadence, 257, 258.

Clifford, 312.

Clough, 228.

Coleridge, Mary, 314.

Copernicus, 20, 21.

Croce, 288, 290.

Cusanus, Nicolaus, 288, 291.

Dante, his world, 22.

Darwin, influence on Nietzsche, 193–195.

Decalogue, 137.

Descartes, and Spinoza, 41–45; 104, 267.

determinism, Spinoza’s, 40, 45, 46, 53–55, 67, 69–78, 310, 311;

of mechanical ideal, 82–84.

disciple, Bourget’s “Le Disciple,” 68;

problem and plot in relation to Spinoza, 69–78;

discussion of problem, mechanism, purpose, and freedom, 81–92;

outcome, 92–95.

empiricism, 104–107, 311, 312.

Epictetus, 280.

Epicurus, “Garden of,” 22; 99, 112.

Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata, 39, 310.

evolution, Nietzsche and doctrine of organic, 193–195.

Fichte, 67, 149, 154, 159.

Flaubert, 168, 294, 295.

France, Anatole, contrasts ancient and modern worlds, 22, 23, 168;

on realism in history, 223–226; 266, 294, 295.

freedom, consistent with mechanism, 53–55, 84–92;

Kant on, 140.

Fourlians, morality of, 120–123.

geometry, ethics after manner of, 39; 42, 43, 45, 310.

Gierke, 291.

God, ontological proof of, 43, 44;

Kant, 131, 142–146, 148–149;

“is dead,” 185–187.

Goethe, 315.

good, the, see imperative; 261–273.

Gottrunkener, Spinoza ein, 52.

Gourmont, Remy de, 275.

group, mind of, 288–292, 301.

Hardy, 168, 169.

Hegel, 149, 159.

Heine, 215.

Hobbes, 104, 268–272.

humanity, Hume on, 126.

Hume, personality, 100–104;

inheritance of empiricism, 104–107;

on experience vs. miracles, 107–112;

on Providence and Future State, 112–115;

on Natural Religion, reasons for vacillation, 115–119;

on problem of morals and definition of virtue, 119–125;

on virtue and happiness, 125–127; 227, 228, 266, 267, 311, 312.

Huxley, his “aviditas vitae,” 205; 312.

hypothetical, good, ought, see imperative.

ideal, mechanical, 82–84;

teleological, 89;

of progress, 281.

idealism, German, 29; 219.

immortality, Kant on, 140, 141.

imperative, Kant on hypothetical and categorical, 131–137; 261–263.

individuation, effected by love, 143–145, 293, 294, 296–299;

effected by art, 294–296.

Inquisition, Bruno before the Holy, 3–18, 33.

Jesus, Nietzsche’s conception of, 189, 197–200.

James, see Pragmatism.

John Scotus, 310.

Kant, iv, 67;

attitude toward religion, 131;

on imperatives, 131–137;

on presuppositions of morality, 137–146;

postulates freedom, immortality, God, 146–150;

moral law, first formulation, 151–152;

second formulation, 152, 153;

on harmony of wills, 153, 154; 187, 261–263, 312.

law, mechanical and teleological, 86–92, 117–119.

Leconte de Lisle, 229.

Leibnitz, 29, 233.

Leviathan, Hobbes’s, 268–272.

Locke, 104.

logic, and ethics, 42, 43;

and love, 297–300.

Loisy, l’Abbé, 242.

Louÿs, Pierre, 153.

love, individuates, 143–145, 293, 294, 296–299;

and logic, 297–300.

loyalty, defines morality, 268, 274;

defined, 288–290.

Lucretius, 99, 165, 186.

Mach, Ernst, 216.

Marcus Aurelius, 212.

Maupassant, 168, 294, 295.

mechanism, Spinoza on, 40, 45, 46, 53–55, 67, 69–78, 310, 311;

ideal of, 82–84;

consistent with purpose and freedom, 53–55, 84–92.

Melville, Herman, on Typees, 251–253.

mind, and body, 45, 46;

group, 288–292, 301.

miracles, Hume’s treatment in “Enquiry,” 107–110.

Mocenigo, his denunciation of Bruno, 3–8.

modernism, and pragmatism, 241–244.

Montaigne, v, 253–256.

morality, Kant’s law of, 151–153;

proposed as absolute good, 263–268;

questioned as absolute good, 268–272;

reformed, 274, 275;

discarded, 275, 276.

nature, man in state of, 251–258, 269–271;

conquest of, 279–281.

Newman, 242.

New Testament, Kant and, 146.

Nicolaus, of Cusa, 291.

Nietzsche, iv;

key-note of, 185;

historic comparisons with, 185–188;

and Schopenhauer, 188–193;

and Darwin, 193–195;

on superman as goal, 195;

on transvaluation, 195–199;

on genealogy of morals, 199–204;

on anarchy, 204–205;

on will to power, 205–207;

on eternal returning, 208–211;

vanishing goal, 211, 212;

on courage, 212;

on scientific spirit, 231–233; 276, 313, 314.

ought, see imperative.

Old Testament, world of, 139, 146.

parallelism, 45, 46.

Pascal, 27, 149, 242.

Pascendi, Encyclical, 241.

philosophers, Nietzsche’s estimate of, 199.

pietism, influence on Kant, 146.

pity, a vice, 187–189.

Plato, 89, 288, 293, 294.

pragmatism, v;

relation to realism and idealism, 215–219;

James’s first presentation of, 219, 220;

reaction of realists against, 220–230;

Nietzsche and, 231–234;

“Will to Believe,” 234–239;

and modernism, 240–244, and ‘human’ religion, 244–245;

physical science and ideals of, 245, 246, 315.

progress, v;

skeptics of, 251–261;

conditional and absolute, 261–262;

toward moral good held absolute, 263–268;

morality proves conditional good, 268–273;

as viewed by reformed morality and by amorality, 273–276;

and conflicting ideals of peace and war, 277;

final definition of, 277–281.

Providence, Hume on “Particular,” 112–115.

purpose, consistent with mechanism, 53–55, 84–92.

quakerism, German, 146.

Rabelais, 153.

rationalism, of Descartes, 41–45, 104.

realism, 218;

in science, 221;

in history, 222–226;

in ethics, 227;

in religion, 228, 240–242;

in art, 228, 229.

religion, “Natural History of,” 110;

Kant’s attitude toward, 131;

identified with philosophy, 310.

Rousseau, 258.

Royce, 157, 267, 285, 287, 289, 293.

Schelling, 149, 159.

Scherer, on Amiel, 217.

Schopenhauer, iv, 154;

“World as Will,” 158–161;

on universal strife, 162–167;

forerunners, 167, 168;

followers, 168, 169;

on suicide, 169, 170;

on the beautiful, 170–172;

on civil law, 172–173;

on moral intuition, 173–175;

on denial of will, 175–178;

on Nirvana, 178–181;

and Nietzsche, 186–193; 313, 314.

Schopp, letter describing Bruno’s trial and execution, 31–34.

Spinoza, iv;

family, life, death, 39;

and Bruno, 39, 40;

and Descartes, 40–46;

on popular theology, 46–51;

ein Gottrunkener, 52;

purpose and freedom, 53–55;

knowledge goodness, happiness, 55–63; 104, 187, 310, 311.

suicide, Schopenhauer on, 169–170.

superman, iv, 195, 196, 205, 208.

super-superman, iv, 208.

sympathy, Hume on, 126;

Schopenhauer on, 173–175;

Nietzsche on, see pity.

Tasso, 259, 263.

teleology, see purpose.

Tennant, 300.

tragedy, Schopenhauer’s conception of, 158, 168, 169.

Typees, of Melville, 251–253.

Ulysses, morality of, 265.

utility, Hume on, 125;

“Why Pleases,” 126.

Van den Ende, Francis, 41.

Venice, Bruno before tribunal at, 9–18.

will, to live, see Schopenhauer;

to power, see Nietzsche;

to believe, see pragmatism.

Xenophanes, 186, 309.

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