Critique of religion and philosophy
(Book)

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.