Egotism in German Philosophy

by George Santayana

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INDEX
Alexander the Great, a model for German idealists, [80], [81]
Aristotle, [120], [124]
Belief in God, disproved pragmatically, [134]
Bull-psychology, [148], [153]
Burckhardt, [47]
Byron, [48], [49]
Cæsar Borgia, a superman, [138]
Calvinism, in Kant, [57]; in Fichte, [25], [77]; in Hegel, [111]
Categorical imperative, its origin, [56]; its prerogatives, [62];
its dangers, [63]
Chancellor, the German, his chivalrous after-thought about Belgium, [50]
Christianity, foreign to Germany, [11];
undermined by German philosophy, [104], [105];
patronised by Goethe, [46];
abandoned by romantic individualists, [107];
denounced by Nietzsche, [130]-[132];
has one element in common with egotism, [106]
Classicism, romantic in Goethe, [46];
missed by Nietzsche, [139]-[142];
when truly vital, [48]
Conquest, a sublime duty, [80], [81]
Contraries, alleged to be inseparable, [89], [90]
Criticism, historical, has a transcendental basis, [29]
Critique of Pure Reason, its agnosticism, [14];
its sophistical foundation, [20]
Durer, [27]
Egotism, defined, [6];
distinguished from selfishness, [95]-[97], [100]-[102], [118];
based on error, [167];
implicit in the Kantian imperative and postulates, [62]-[64];
implies integrity, force, self-complacency, [163]-[166];
is odious in pedants, [142]
Emerson, [24], [49]; quoted, [119]
England, judged by Fichte, [76]
Evil, justified, [123], [132]-[134]
Faith, German conception of it, [13], [27];
corroborated only by itself, [31], [68]
Faust, typical egotist, [13], [14];
prefigures the evolution of Germany, [50], [51], [157];
improves on Saint John, [52]
Fichte, [65]-[83]
Gemüth, why self-conscious, [160]
German ethics, its faults, [103]
German language, its merits, [75]
German nation, its purity, [75];
its mission, [78], [79];
in what sense the chosen people, [73], [74];
necessary to the continued existence of God, [68];
and of history, [79]; its fortunes, [158]-[160]
German philosophy, not all philosophy in Germany, [11];
primitive, [27]; subjective, [12];
in what senses idealistic, [15];
in what sense not so, [16];
ambiguous, [17], [18];
a revelation, [22];
must continually be proved afresh, [26];
is a work of genius, [155]
Gobineau, [77]
Goethe, [43]-[53]; quoted, [159], [165]
Good and evil above right and wrong, [124]
Gospel, amended by Faust, [52];
glossed by Hegelians, [105]
Happiness, not for the egotist, [14], [15];
he despises it, [152];
not abstract nor absolute, [110], [111];
attainable, [118]; its nature, [152], [153]
Heathenism, use of the word, [144];
contrast with paganism, [145], [146];
its modern form, [147], [148]
Hegel, [84]-[98]
Human nature, [117], [118]
Idealism, meanings of the word, [15], [16];
fosters practical materialism, [5], [69]-[72], [78], [81], [82];
should be imposed on the young, [80];
its mystical issue, [38]-[40]
Ideals, when captious, when solid, [137]
Infinity, evaded by Hegel, [88], [89];
recognised again by Schopenhauer, [108], [109]
Kant, [54]-[64]; [25], [34], [35], [42]
Knowledge, assumed to be impossible, [15];
abuse of the term, [39], [60]
Leibniz, anticipates transcendentalism, [33];
his insidious theology, [104]
Lessing, on truth, [129]
Locke, sets the ball rolling, [32]
Luther, [135], [157]
Max Stirner, [99]-[103]; quoted, [73]
Montaigne, quoted, [168] Music, [16], [161]
Musset, [49]
Mysticism, in knowledge, [38]-[40]; in morals, [123]
Nietzsche, [114]-[143]
Optimism, egotistical, [25], [111], [114], [116], [118], [119]
Passion, not naturally egotistical, [101];
may become so, [95], [98];
dull in egotists, [165], [166]
Paulsen, [42]
Perception, terminates in things not in ideas, [19]
Pessimism, inherits disregard of intrinsic values, [109];
reacts against optimism, [25], [111];
is arbitrary, [116]
Pier Gynt, typical egotist, [13], [14]
Plato, his idealism contrasted with the German, [16];
his oppressive politics, [81];
on inspiration, [141]
Postulates of practical reason, equivocal, [58]-[64]
Power, divers meanings of the word, [125]-[127]
Preservation, no law of nature, [115]
Progress, when illusory, [17]; when real, [112]
Protestantism, [21]-[31], [151]
Religion in German philosophy, [7], [13], [75], [76], [82], [83]
Rome and German genius, [150]
Schopenhauer, [108]-[122]
Selfishness, distinguished from egotism, [95], [97], [100]-[102], [118]
Society, its alleged consciousness, [17], [18]; a "spook," [99]
Socrates, [146]
Spinoza, religious feeling transferred to nature, [24];
his mysticism in ethics, [123]
Spirit, its meanings, [37]; its mystic unity, [38]
State, the absolute, an idol, [96]-[98]
Substance, egotistical use of the term, [17], [92]
Superman, [136]-[143]
Tender minds, how attracted to German philosophy, [24]
Transcendentalism, [32]-[42]
Truth, a figment of the will, [28];
made in Germany, [88];
less valuable than illusion, [14], [128]-[130];
not the strong point of philosophies, [154]
Understanding, hostility of Hegel to the, [90], [91]
Wagner, [136], [150]
War, a boon, [96]; how it should be started, [79];
is to rage for two hundred years, [115]
Wilhelm Meister, [44]
Will, used metaphorically, [36], [114];
should be disinterested, [67];
may be fulfilled in defeat, [66], [67];
is unstable and indeterminate, [156]-[158];
may be denied, [119], [120]
Winkelmann, [140], note