Critique of religion and philosophy / Walter Arnold Kaufmann

Preface to the Princeton paperback edition -- Preface to the 1972 edition -- Preface to the first edition -- [pt.] 1. The philosophic flight. Philosophical psychology -- The psychology of truth -- Style -- The philosopher's dilemma -- The philosophic flight -- A series of etchings -- Hegel and Nietzsche -- Why most philosophers cannot laugh -- What long aphorisms can mean -- Relativity and criticism -- [pt.] 2. Positivism and existentialism. Two revolts -- Analytic philosophy -- Existentialism -- Two timeless tendencies -- Empiricism as empiricide -- Plato's vision of man -- The British vision of man -- Donnish doubt -- Wittgenstein -- Wittgenstein and Socrates -- Followers -- [pt.] 3. Truth, language, and experience. Truth; true and false -- The aspiration for truth -- Truth and correctness -- Truth and meaning, or: how to read a philosopher -- Theories of truth -- Words and experience -- Language and emotion -- "Love" -- Words as categories -- Works of art as categories -- Common sense -- [pt.] 4. Religion, faith, and evidence. Definition of religion -- Religion at the bar -- "Subjective" truth -- Knowledge, belief, and faith -- Faith, evidence, and James -- Three types of religious propositions -- Recourse to revelation or miracles -- Faith and its causes : contra James -- Seven causes -- Freud and wishful thinking -- [pt.] 5. The god of the philosophers. Godless religions -- Plato's proof that gods exist -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- Perfection and the ontological argument -- Kant's postulate -- Can one prove God's existence? -- Pascal's wager. [pt.] 6. God, ambiguity, and theology. God and ambiguity -- The ambiguity of dogma -- Analogy -- Symbols : contra Tillich -- Demythologizing and valuations -- Contra Bultmann -- Gerrymandering -- Theology -- [pt.] 7. Satanic interlude, or how to go to Hell. Dialogue between Satan and a theologian -- Dialogue between Satan and a Christian -- Dialogue between Satan and an Atheist -- [pt.] 8. Truth in three religions. Religion and truth -- Buddhism and truth -- Zen Buddhism and truth -- Judaism and truth -- Jewish and Christian faith -- Infidel piety -- Liberal Protestantism and truth -- Reinhold Niebuhr and truth -- A platonic error, reason, and Christianity -- Christianity and truth -- [pt.] 9. The core of religion. Claims of mysticism -- Ineffability -- Mysticism as a historical phenomenon -- Criteria of mystical experience -- The experience of inspiration -- Mysticism, inspiration, and religion -- Contra Fromm : religion and tragedy -- Religion and loyalty -- Thomist versus non-Thomist -- Loyalty and truth -- Religion, aspiration, and the holy -- Otherworldliness -- Religion and poetry -- [pt.] 10. Scriptures and poetry, or how to read the bible. Inexhaustibility -- The psychology of interpretation -- Explanation -- Inconsistencies -- Quellenscheidung -- The two Mosaic theories -- Religion and progress -- The gospels and poetry -- A Buddhist text -- Against eclecticism -- [pt.] 11. Reason and eros. Plato as educator -- The uncloistered virtue -- Kant and Freud -- Freud and aspiration -- Man's ontological interest -- Reason and aspiration -- Epitaph.