PREFACE.

OF THE FIRST AND LAST THINGS.

• Chemistry of the Notions and the Feelings.

• The Traditional Error of Philosophers.

• Appreciation of Simple Truths.

• Astrology and the Like.

• Misconception of Dreams.

• The Scientific Spirit Prevails only Partially, not Wholly.

• The Discordant Element in Science.

• Pneumatic Explanation of Nature.

• Metaphysical World.

• The Harmlessness of Metaphysic in the Future.

• Language as a Presumptive Science.

• Dream and Civilization.

• Logic of the Dream.

• Association.

• No Within and Without in the World.

• Phenomenon and Thing-in-Itself.

• Metaphysical Explanation.

• The Fundamental Problems of Metaphysics.

• Number.

• Some Backward Steps.

• Presumable [Nature of the] Victory of Doubt.

• Disbelief in the “monumentum aere perennius”.

• Age of Comparison.

• Possibility of Progress.

• Private Ethics and World Ethics.

• Reaction as Progress.

• A Substitute for Religion.

• Discredited Words.

• Intoxicated by the Perfume of Flowers.

• Evil Habits in Reaching Conclusions.

• The Illogical is Necessary.

• Being Unjust is Essential.

• Error Respecting Living for the Sake of Living Essential.

• For Tranquility.

HISTORY OF THE MORAL FEELINGS.

• Advantages of Psychological Observation.

• Objection.

• Nevertheless.

• To What Extent Useful.

• The Fable of Discretionary Freedom.

• Above Animal.

• Unalterable Character.

• Classification of Enjoyments and Ethic.

• Inhuman Men as Survivals.

• Gratitude and Revenge.

• Two-fold Historical Origin of Good and Evil.

• Sympathy Greater than Suffering.

• Hypochondria.

• Economy of Blessings.

• Well-Wishing.

• The Desire to Inspire Compassion.

• How Appearance Becomes Reality.

• The Point of Honor in Deception.

• Presumed Degrees of Truth.

• Falsehood.

• Ethic Discredited for Faith’s Sake.

• Victory of Knowledge over Radical Evil.

• Ethic as Man’s Self-Analysis.

• What Can be Promised.

• Intellect and Ethic.

• Desire for Vengeance and Vengeance Itself.

• Ability to Wait.

• Glutting Revenge.

• Value of Disparagement.

• The Man in a Rage.

• Whither Honesty May Lead.

• Punishable, not Punished.

• Sancta simplicitas of Virtue.

• Morality and Consequence.

• Love and Justice.

• Execution.

• Hope.

• Degree of Moral Susceptibility Unknown.

• The Martyr Against His Will.

• General Standard.

• Misunderstanding of Virtue.

• The Ascetic.

• Honor Transferred from Persons to Things.

• Ambition a Substitute for Moral Feeling.

• Vanity Enriches.

• Senility and Death.

• Delusions Regarding Victim and Regarding Evil Doer.

• The Soul’s Skin.

• Sleep of Virtue.

• Subtlety of Shame.

• Naughtiness Is Rare.

• The Mite in the Balance.

• Luke 18:14 Improved.

• Prevention of Suicide.

• Vanity.

• Limits of the Love of Mankind.

• Weeping Morality.

• Origin of Justice.

• Concerning the Law of the Weaker.

• The Three Phases of Morality Hitherto.

• Ethic of the Developed Individual.

• Usage and Ethic.

• Delight in the Moral.

• Pleasure and Social Instinct.

• The Guiltless Nature of So-Called Bad Acts.

• Shame.

• Judge Not.

• “Man Always Does Right.”

• The Inoffensive in Badness.

• Self Defence.

• Justice that Rewards.

• The Water Fall.

• Non-Responsibility and Non-Guilt.

THE RELIGIOUS LIFE.

• The Double Contest Against Evil.

• Sorrow is Knowledge.

• The Truth in Religion.

• Origin of Religious Worship.

• At the Contemplation of Certain Ancient Sacrificial Proceedings.

• Christianity as Antiquity.

• The Un-Greek in Christianity.

• Being Religious to Some Purpose.

• The Everyday Christian.

• Concerning the Cleverness of Christianity.

• Personal Change.

• Fate of Christianity.

• The Testimony of Pleasure.

• Dangerous Play.

• The Blind Pupil.

• The Breaking off of Churches.

• Sinlessness of Men.

• Irreligiousness of Artists.

• Art and Strength of False Interpretation.

• Reverence for Madness.

• Promises of Wisdom.

• Forbidden Generosity.

• Survival of Religious Training in the Disposition.

• Religious After-Pains.

• Of the Christian Need of Salvation.

• Before we consider this condition in its further effects, we would admit to…

• If now, as stated, the Christian, through certain delusive feelings, is…

• Therefore a certain false psychology, a certain kind of imaginativeness in…

• Of Christian Asceticism and Sanctity.

• There is an obstinacy against oneself, certain sublimated forms of which are…

• Man is Not at All Hours Equally Moral

• Even the Ascetic Seeks to Make Life Easier

• After having discovered in many of the less comprehensible actions mere…

• The Most Usual Means

• To Sum Up All That Has Been Said

• Not What the Saint is but what he was in

• It stands to reason that this sketch of the saint, made upon the model of…