i) “Buddhist”

ii) “Moral”

iii) “Objectivity”

i) Non-dualism and metaphysical agnosticism

ii) The relation of theory and practice

iii) Absolute value and the judgements of conventional logic

iv) The use of psychological premises

v) Timeless truth in historical contexts

vi) The Middle Way and its antecedents

i) Against initial philosophical objections to the unconscious

ii) Belief and desire

iii) Desire and the ego

iv) The nature of dualistic belief processes

v) Some evidence from social psychology

i) The heuristic problem

ii) The failure of dualistic approaches to the problem

iii) A psychological explanation without relativism

i) Dogmatism and scepticism

ii) The dualism/non-dualism distinction

iii) Representationalism and expressivism

iv) Linguistic idealism

i) Ethical foundationalism

ii) Cosmic justice

iii) Freewill

iv) Alienation of desire

v) Political polarisation

i) Socrates’ aporesis

ii) Socratic eternalism

iii) Platonic eternalism

iv) Platonic conservatism

i) Stoic non-dualism

ii) Stoic Dualism: the Cosmic Logos

iii) Stoic Dualism: the Individual Logos

i) The Law of the Torah

ii) Jesus

iii) Paul

iv) Early Christianity and Stoicism

v) Constantine and Christian political philosophy

vi) Christian mysticism and religious experience

vii) The medieval period and the Renaissance

viii) Luther and the Reformation

ix) Descartes

x) Christianity and Capitalism

i) Kant’s background and psychology

ii) Dualism and non-dualism in Kant

iii) Representationalism/ Expressivism

iv) Linguistic idealism

v) Freewill

vi) Ethical Foundationalism

vii) Cosmic Justice

viii) From Conservatism to Liberalism

i) Enlightenment and Romanticism

ii) Hegel’s Dialectic

iii) Pure thought, representations and idealism

iv) Freewill and ethical foundationalism

v) Cosmic justice

vi) Hegel and Totalitarianism

i) The priority of sociology

ii) Methodological holism

iii) Idealism and ideology

iv) Ethical foundationalism and cosmic justice

v) Freewill and determinism

i) Schopenhauer’s context and character

ii) Schopenhauer’s non-dualism

iii) The Principle of Sufficient Reason

iv) Cosmic justice and freewill

v) Ethical foundationalism

i) A capitalist form of eternalism

ii) The epistemological foundations

iii) Compatibilism

iv) Consequentialism and alienation

v) Utilitarianism and politics

i) Ethical coherentism

ii) The denial of freewill or cosmic justice

iii) Hedonism and alienation

iv) Individualism

i) Classical Scepticism

ii) Aristotle’s empiricism

iii) Aristotle’s ethics

iv) MacIntyre’s reformed Aristotelianism

i) The beginning of modern nihilism

ii) Ideas and impressions

iii) Belief and causality

iv) The denial of the self

v) Ethical descriptivism

i) Scientism from Hume to Frege

ii) Frege

iii) Logical positivism

iv) Positivist ethics

v) Hare

vi) Theories of rationality

vii) Liberal neutrality

i) Grammatical scientism

ii) Theory of meaning

iii) Private language

i) General features of pragmatism

ii) Peirce and James on truth

iii) James’s psychology

iv) Dewey’s psychological ethics

v) Dewey’s political thought

i) Nietzsche’s “nihilism”

ii) The Will to Power

iii) The Übermensch

i) Kierkegaard’s leap

ii) Husserl

iii) Heidegger

iv) Sartre

v) Sartre versus Freud

vi) The Postmodern Condition

i) Outline of method in Part 2

ii) The Middle Way in Western thought

iii) Introduction to chapter 5

i) Frustration

iii) Integration of desires

i) Meaning and desire

ii) The fragmentation of meaning

iii) The integration of meaning

i) Belief, desire, meaning and stream-entry

ii) Doubt

iii) Confidence

i) Cultivating integration of attention

ii) Cultivating integration of emotion

iii) Narrative and archetype

iv) Friendship

v) Sceptical argument and the cultivation of wisdom

i) Temporary integrations

ii) Permanent partial integration

iii) Enlightenment

i) Metaphysical agnosticism

ii) Desires and objective integration

iii) Continuity and discontinuity

iv) The uses and abuses of duality

i) Supervenience

ii) Realism and idealism

iii) Mind and body

iv) Identity

v) Freewill and determinism

vi) Cosmic justice

vii) The unity of the virtues

viii) Positive and negative freedom

i) Verification and falsification incrementalised

ii) Verification of the Middle Way

iii) Falsification of the Middle Way

i) Two forms of individuality

ii) The integration of groups

iii) Group epistemology

iv) The individual in the group

i) The question of normativity

ii) Rational normativity

iii) The normativity of desire

iv) The normativity of conventions

i) Aesthetic and symbolic normativity

ii) Scientific normativity

i) Ignorance and the need for moral authority

ii) Authority from past integration

iii) Spiritual friendship

iv) Moral traditions

v) Moral precepts

vi) Buddhist precepts

i) Problems of priority

ii) Consequentialism and deontology

iii) Pride, guilt and confession

i) The justification of political authority

ii) The integration of government

iii) Conflicts between moral and political authority

i) Non-dualism in ten points

ii) The status of the argument

i) The epistemological starting-point

iii) Karma and rebirth

iv) “Sudden” enlightenment

v) Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels