Table of Contents
Author’s Preface
Translator’s Note
The Conduct of Life
I. Types of Failure
II. Sins of Thought
III. Attachment to Things
IV. Religion and Peace of Mind
V. Our Dead
VI. Sex
VII. Forgiving and Forgetting
VIII. On Telling the Truth
IX. Predisposition to Evil
X. Nefarious Professions
XI. Gratitude and Merit
XII. “Heart” and “Reason”
XIII. Compassion and Justice
XIV. Toil and Pain
XV. Imagination and the Escape from Reality
XVI. Beyond Life
XVII. The Joy of Evil
XVIII. Virtue and Compromise
XIX. Faith and Abstention from Thought
XX. Humility
XXI. A Word for Imperfection
XXII. The Individual, Grace and Providence
XXIII. Providence
XXIV. Responsibility
XXV. Hope and Fear
XXVI. Objects of Worship
XXVII. Perfection and Imperfection
XXVIII. Innocence and Knowledge
XXIX. The Value of Example
XXX. The House Divided Against Itself
XXXI. Specialisation and Intolerance
XXXII. Indifference to Public Affairs
XXXIII. Political Honesty
XXXIV. Disgust for Politics
XXXV. The Cravenness of States
XXXVI. The State as an Ethical Institution
XXXVII. Rational and Irrational Institutions
XXXVIII. Social Programmes and Practical Reality
XXXIX. “Intellectuality” and “Intellectuals”
XL. The Non-Philosopher
XLI. The Impenetrability of Consciousness
XLII. Beatitude and Yearning for Repose
XLIII. The Religious Spirit