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Aboriginals
action
advertising, subliminal
afterlife
agon
agriculture
see also farming
Al Qaeda
Alexander the Great
alphabet
amorality
anarchism, anarchy
Andean art
Andreas-Salome, Lou
animal virtues
animals
dying
as machines
wild
as ‘world-poor’
worshipped
animism
anthropocentrism
anti-capitalist riots
apes
architecture
Arctic
Aristotle
art
artificial intelligence
artificial life
Aspinall, John
Assyrians
astronomy, Copernican
atheism
Augustine, St
Australia
automation
autonomy
Averroës, Ibn Rushd
awakening
Axis powers
baboons
chacma
hamdryas
Babylonians
Bacon, Francis
bacteria
Ballard, J. G.
Cocaine Nights
Super-Cannes
Bangladesh
Barbour, Julian
Bateson, Gregory
Beautiful, the
beauty
Bhagavad-Gita
Bible, the
biological weapons
biophilia
biosphere
birth rate
blindsight
Bolsheviks
boredom
Borges, J. L.
bourgeois life
Brahe, Tycho
Brethren of the Free Spirit
Brodsky, Joseph
Brody, Hugh
Brook, Peter
Brooks, R. A.
Brownshirts
Buddha
Buddhism
Bushmen
Butler, Samuel
Calypso
Cambodia
camels
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer)
capitalism
careers
cars
Carthage
Çatal Hüyük, Anatolia
Cathars
causality
cause and effect
censorship
Central Asia
Charcot, Jean
Chatwin, Bruce
Utz
Chernobyl reactor explosion
China
Chinese script
Chinese thought
Chirico, Giorgio de
choice
Christendom
Christianity
conversion to
the cult of personhood
decline
faith in human progress
and faith in truth
founded by St Paul as a Jewish sect
and free will
and genocide
and human history
humans seen as different from all other animals
the idea of the human subject
and Judaism
and justice
and morality
Nietzsche attacks
and philosophy
and salvation
sees religion as a matter of true belief
Tertullian on
and tragedy
worship of truth
Chuang-Tzu
Church, the
and the Cathars
and Galileo
and philosophy
power of
and science
submission to
Cicero
Cioran, E. M.
circadian rhythm
climate change
cloning
cognitive science
Cold War
communication
communism
compassion
competition
Comte, Auguste
Confucians
Connolly, Cyril
Conrad, Joseph
Lord Jim
Nostromo
conscience
conscious awareness
consciousness
conservation
contemplation
Copernican astronomy
Copernicus, Nicolas
courage
cruelty
cybernauts
cyberspace
Dada
daimon (an inner oracle)
Daisyworld
Dante Alighieri
Darwin, Charles
natural selection theory
shows that humans are like other animals
species as only assemblies of genes
Darwinism
de Quincey, Thomas
de Rosnay, Joel
death
death rate
Debord, Guy
deception
Descartes, René
Diamond, Jared
digital evolution
dinosaurs, extinction of
Dionysus
disease
division of labour
Dodds, E. R.
Dogen
dolphins
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
dreams
drugs
Dyson, George
Eckardt, Meister
economy, the
Ecstasy
egalitarianism
Ehrenzweig, Anton
Einstein, Albert
11 September attacks
Elliot, Gil
Ellis, Havelock
‘Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise’
Engels, Friedrich
England
secularisation
Enlightenment
Epicurus
epidemiology
Ernst, Max
Esperanto
ethics
eugenics
Euripides
evolution
evolutionary psychology
Expressionists
Fall of Man
family, the
famine
farming
see also agriculture
Fascism
Fedorov, Nikolai
fertility, fall in
Feyerabend, Paul
Final Solution
First World War
Ford, Brian J.
Form of the Good
Fourier, Charles François
free trade
free will
freedom
cherishing
Rousseau’s dictum
freedom of thought
Freud, Sigmund
Frister, Roman
Fukuyama, Francis
fundamentalism
Futurism
Gaia
Gaia hypothesis
Galileo Galilei
Gallimard
Gaudí i Cornet, Antonio
gay sex
Gelassenheit (releasement)
genes
Genet, Jean
The Balcony
genetic engineering
genetic weapons
genetically modified foods
genetically modified (GM) crops
genetics
genocidal weapons
genocide
Bangladesh
Cambodia
Rwanda
Tasmania
German language
Germany, Nazi
Gibson, William
Neuromancer
Gimbutas, M.
global warming
globalisation
Gnosticism
God
‘death of’
existence of
and the Form of the Good
laws of
and morality
need for man
and sin
will of
Golding, William
Good, the
goodness
Gorbachev, Mikhail
gorillas
Graham, A. C.
Graves, Robert
Greece, ancient
Greek language
Greek Scepticism
Greek tragedy
Greeks, ancient
Green, T. H.
Green thinkers
Greene, Graham
greenhouse gases
Grotowski, Jerzy
guerrilla warfare
guilt
gulags
Gunaratana
Gurdjieff, G. I.
habitat, wild
‘half-second delay’
halobacteria
happiness
Hardy, Thomas
Hayek, Friedrich
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heidegger, Martin
animals as ‘world-poor’
Being
Being and Time
desperate to belong
and Gelassenheit
and humanism
Letter on Humanism
Nazism
a postmonotheist
and Schopenhauer
sees humans as necessary in the scheme of things
Heinrich, Bernd
Heisenberg, Werner
Heller, M.
Heraclitus
Fragments
Herling, Gustaw
Hinduism
history
human
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbes, Thomas
Leviathan
Holocaust
Homer
Iliad
Odyssey
Homo ludens
Homo rapiens
Homo sapiens
homunculus
Hose, Sam
human animal
achieving conscious mastery of its existence
advance coincides with ecological devastation
cloning
concept of conscious human evolution
as deluded animals
existence as accidental
a highly inventive species
instincts
need for God
need for a purpose in life
no different from other animals
predatory and destructive
reaction to stress
as a straw dog
as a technological device
humanism
ambitions
belief in progress
belief that we can transcend our animal natures
a doctrine of salvation
faith in truth
and free will
and Gnosticism
and Green thinkers
gulf between ourselves and other animals
the idea of the human subject
illusions of
as irrational
a secular religion
Hume, David
hunter-gatherers
Husserl, Edmund
Hutus
hypnosis
hysteria
Icarus
idealism
identity
Illich, Ivan D.
illusion
immorality
immortality
technological pursuit of
immune systems
India
Indian philosophy
individuality
Industrial Revolution
industrialisation
inequality
injustice
insect colonies
intelligence
Internet
Inuit people
Islamic countries
Italy
secularisation
Japan
isolationism
Japanese navy
Jeffers, Robinson
‘Meditation on Saviors’
Jesus
Joy, Bill
Judaism
Jung, C. G.
justice
Kaczynski, Theodore (the Unabomber)
Kalahari Desert
Kant, Immanuel
autonomous, freely choosing selves
and Hume
noumenal world
and Schopenhauer
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Report to Greco
Kepler, Johannes
Keynes, John Maynard, 1st Baron
kindness
knowledge
knowledge-enabled mass destruction (KMD)
Koestler, Arthur
Arrival and Departure
Kolyma
Kraus, Karl
Krishnamurti, Jiddu
kulaks
Kurds
Kurzweil, Ray
Labyrinth, Knossos, Crete
language
crystallised in writing
Esperanto
and machines
Wittgenstein and
Lanner, William
Lao Tzu
Lawrence, D. H.
The Escaped Cock
leaf-cutter ants
Left, the
Lem, Stanislaw
Summa Technologiae
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Lewin, Leonard C.
Lewis, Wyndham
Libet, Benjamin
Lichtenberg, G. C.
Lieh-Tzu
life expectancy
logic, classical
love
Lovelock, James
‘a plague of people’ (Disseminated Primatemaia)
suggests four possible outcomes
climate change
on Gaia
and global warming
model of Daisyworld
and orthodox Darwinians
Lowith, Karl
lucid dreaming
Machiavelli, Niccolò
The Prince
machines
animals as
choiceless automatism of
humans supported by
souls of
thinking
magic
Maimonides
Maistre, Joseph de
Malthus, Thomas
mammoths
Mandean community, Syria
Mandeville, Bernard de
The Fable of the Bees
Mann, Thomas
Mao Zedong
Maoism
Marais, Eugene
The Soul of the Ape
The Soul of the White Ant
Margulis, Lynn
Marx, Karl
Marxism
mastodons
Mauthner, Fritz
maya
Mean, the
medicine
medievalism
meditation
meditative states
memes
inferior
memories
repressed
Mesmer, Anton
mesmerism
Method, the
microbiology
microchips
Middle Ages
Miller, Rebecca Stone
Milosz, Czeslaw
miracles
modernity
monkeys, violent death among
Monod, Jacques
monotheism
moral autonomy
moral progress
morality
as an aphrodisiac
immoral
rules the world
Socrates as inventor
as superstition
Moravec, Hans
Morrison, Reg
mortality
Mosley, Oswald
music
mystics
myth
Nagarjuna
nanotechnologies
National Health Service
nationalism, Hindu
natural selection theory
naturalism
Nazism
Nekrich, A.
Neolithic Age
New York
New Zealand
Newman, Georgia
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
and animal virtues
attacks Schopenhauer’s views
belongs nowhere
The Birth of Tragedy
breakdown
and history
humanism
on pity
a postmonotheist
and Superman
on tragedy
nihilism
nirvana
North America: loss of large mammals
noumenal world
Odysseus
oil prices
Old Stone Age
Old Testament
Original Sin
overcrowding
Palestinians
Pascal, Blaise
perception
subliminal
Pergouset cave paintings
Perrin, Noel
Perry, Commodore
Persian Gulf
Persians
personality, cult of
Pessoa, Fernando (‘Bernardo Soares’)
phalanstères (monasterylike institutions)
phantomatics
philosophy
aim of
and Christianity
Greek
Indian
mechanistic
shakes off Christian faith
Socratic
physics
pictographs
pity
plants, the senses of
Plato
Platonism
play
pleasure
pogroms
politics
pollution
polytheism
Popper, Karl
population
Positivism
postmodernism
Potzl, O.
pre-Socratic Greeks
progress
Prometheus
property
Protagoras
Protestants
prudence
Prynne, J. H.
psychiatry
pygmies
Pyrrho
quantum mechanics
rainforests
rationalism
ravens
Rawls, John
reality
insight into
ultimate
reason
dismissal of
science and
servant of the will
stupefied
rebirth
redemption
Rees, Goronwy
relativism
religion
religious fundamentalists
and science
wane of
war and
reproduction
resentment
resurrection
rhodopsin
rich, oligarchy of the
Rifkin, Jeremy
Right, the
robot behaviour
robotics
Romans
Romanticism
Rome, ancient
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Royal Society of Tasmania
Rudgley, Richard
Russell, Bertrand
Russia
anarcho-capitalism
attempts to modernise on a Western model
capitalism
demographic collapse
inherits a devastated environment
Russian Imperial Fleet
Rwanda
S-and-M parlours
Sagan, Dorion
Sahlins, Marshall
Saint-Simon, Henri de
salvation
samurai
Sandars, N. K.
Sankara
Santayana, George
scarcity
Sceptics
Schoenberg, Arnold
Schopenhauer, Arthur
and Christianity’s influence on philosophy
critique of humanism
daily routine
and Heidegger
and history
and Indian philosophy
influence of
injures a seamstress
and Kant
maya
personality
pessimism
a reactionary liberal
and sex
and the will
and Wittgenstein
‘On Women’
Schrödinger, Erwin
science
acting against reason
advancing human knowledge
authority of
founders of modern science
and human needs
irrational origins
progress in
and reason
and religion
as a remedy for anthropocentrism
role as mankind’s deliverer
Russell on
scientific fundamentalists
seen as the ‘supreme expression of reason’
serves the need for hope and censorship
supreme value of
and technology
and truth
science v humanism
scientific method
seals
Second World War
secular idealism
secularisation
secularism
self-awareness
self-deception
self-knowledge
self-replication
selfhood
sensation
sex
gay
virtual
Shalamov, Varlam
Kolyma Tales
shamanism
Shaw, George Bernard
Shestov, Leo
Shintoism
Siberia
Silesius, Angelus
sin
disobedience to God
sense of
Sinclair, Iain
Sisyphus
Situationists
sloths
‘Soares, Bernardo’ (Fernando Pessoa)
social democracy
Socrates
inventor of morality
Socratic philosophy
solar energy
Solovki
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
soul
immortality of
machines
South America
loss of large mammals
sovereign states
Soviet space explorers
Soviet Union
collapse of
environmental damage by
mass murder in
Shaw and
space
Spariosu, Mihai I.
species
assemblies of genes
mass extinction
speech
Spinoza, Baruch
spiritual life
Stalin, Joseph
Stanislavsky, Constantin
state
disappearance of
and science
Stoics
Stokell, Dr George
Stone Age
Strasbourg student protests (1960s)
straw dogs
stress
Subliminal Projection Company
suffering
Sufi
suicide
Sumer, Sumeria
Superman
Surrealism
Sweden
secularisation
sympathy
Tao Te Ching
Taoism
Tasmania
technology
attempts to shut out new technology
chaotic drift of new technologies
Gaian meaning of
and microchips
science and
‘telluric soul’
Tertullian
Theosophists
Tibetan teachings
time
Times Literary Supplement
Tolstoy, Count Leo
tragedy
trees
Trivers, Robert
Trojans
True, the
trust
truth
and the good
making us free
not needed for survival or reproduction
science and
worship of
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin
Tsong Khapa, Jey
Tsushima, Battle of
Turin
Turkey
Turner, Mary
Tutsis
tyranny
ultimate reality
unconscious mind
United States
crusade against drugs
universal Will
University of Freiburg
Upper Paleolithic art
utopianism
values
Vaneigem, Raoul
Varela, Francisco
Vedanta
Viagra
vice
violence
virtual reality
virtual self
virtue
war
future
as play
and religion
Ward, Mark
Warner, Rex
The Aerodrome
Washington, D.C.
weapons of mass destruction
Webb, Beatrice
Webb, Sidney
welfare state
well-being
‘Western values’
will, the
Wilson, E. O.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
humanism
and idealism
Philosophical Investigations
and Schopenhauer
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Woolfson, Adrian
Work (Gurdjieff)
working class
World Trade Center, New York
World Wide Web
Wright, Robert
writing
Yang Chu
Yeltsin, Boris
Zarathustra