Ingratitude is a double vice, since in the same act that denies the altruism of the other affirms one’s egoism; this act is fatal to the spirit.
THE TRIUMPH OF THE MASSES
OR THE LETHARGY OF THE SPIRIT
The masses are no longer just the uneducated masses, but society as a whole. Tastes and customs, imposed from the bottom up, have reached everyone; massification is universal. The triumph of materialism is proportional to the alienation it has generated with respect to spiritual reality. Without spirit, the decline of the West was a predictable consequence. However, it is possible to reverse this process. This book deals with the psychological and historical causes that have generated this situation, and the means to overcome it. But it doesn’t all begin and end there; in Part 5, the author expands on the First Causes and the Meta-Historical Ends.
Nr: Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi, India.
PART I: THE HISTORICAL CAUSES
INDEX
From Revolt to Triumph
The Problem with and the Need for History
Myths in Christianity
Jesus and the Pharisees
Pauline Doctrine
Ecclesiastical Politics
Attacks against Hellenist Civilisation:
The Attack on Rome
The Attack on Epicurus
The Attack on Celsius
The Attack on Arius
The Attack on Nestorius
The Attacks on the Neoplatonists
The Attack on the Emperor Julian
The Attack on Alexandria
The Attack on Constantinople
The Christian Emperors
Attacks on Buildings and Monuments (new)
The Definitive attack on Rome (new)
ATTACKS AGAINST THE HERETICS
The Gnostic Gospels
Gnosticism, Conclusion
The Attacks on the Cathars
The Inquisition
Slavery in Africa and America
THE RENAISSANCE OF SPIRIT AND CULTURE
The Spirit of the Renaissance (new)
Humanism (new)
The Renaissance of Man, Nature and the Gods (new)
The Reformation (new)
Neoplatonism and Christianity
Spinoza and the Bible
Christianity and Civilisation
A Few Words on Doctrine
Conclusion
PART II: COMMUNISM, NIETSCHE, ORTEGA, AND THE FALL OF IDEALISM
INDEX
COMMUNISM AND MATERIALISM
Background
Communism, a Resurgence of Christianity
Christianity and Materialism
A Brief Introduction to Materialism
Materialism
The Stage of Necessity
Conclusion
NIETZSCHE
The Antichrist
Nietzsche’s Morality
Nietzsche and Idealism
Conclusion
ORTEGA Y GASSET
Ortega and his Epoch
The Self-Satisfied Man
The Barbarism of Specialism
Ortega’s Historical Reason
On the Concept of Aristocracy
Vital Reason and Vital Idealism
Conclusion
THE FALL OF IDEALISM. ITS CAUSES
Hegel
Schopenhauer
Kierkegaard
Heidegger
Sartre
Epilogue to Existentialism
PART III: INTERPRETATIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES OF HISTORY
INDEX
Psychosophy of History
Thucydides
Augustine of Hippo
Thucydides and Hegel
History in Hegel in the Light of my Philosophy
Marx and Hegel
TOYNBEE
The Challenge
Schism in the Soul
Mimesis
Toynbee and Renaissances
Toynbee and Philosophy
Universal States and Universal Churches
Toynbee and Christianity
On Toynbee’s Scientific Claim
Generalities
Ortega and Toynbee
Causes of Decline and Apogee
PART 4: OUR TIMES
INDEX
Applied Philosophy
The Triumph of the Masses
Morality, Culture, and Politics Today
Of Excesses
Fashion
Contemporary Art
Moral Decline Today
Decadent Beliefs and Ideologies
The Expansion of Mass Spirit
Progress and Progressivism
The New World Order
Democracy Today
Education and Culture
The New Threat in the Old World
Synthesis of the Current Situation
Morality and Politics in Greece
Fame Then and Now
Democracy in Athens
Meritocracy, a Political Proposal
PART 5; THE PRIMARY CAUSES AND THE META-HISTORICAL ENDS
INDEX
Beyond the Philosophy of History
On Knowledge
On the Religious Phenomenon
On Individualism
On Mythical Consciousness
Human Evolution and Technological Revolution
On Buddhism and Hinduism
Some Reasonable Proposals
Why my Proposal of a Neo-Renaissance
Comparative Theory of Knowledge
Universal Unitive Memory
On Equilibrium
On the Concept of Evolution
On Universal Consciousness, the Foundation of my Idealism
Epilogue on Love.