tion>John Fiske
Through Nature to God
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066207502
Table of Contents
I The Serpent's Promise to the Woman
IV The Dramatic Unity of Nature
V What Conscious Life is made of
VI Without the Element of Antagonism there could be no Consciousness, and therefore no World
IX Man's Rise from the Innocence of Brutehood
THE COSMIC ROOTS OF LOVE AND SELF-SACRIFICE
I The Summer Field, and what it tells us
II Seeming Wastefulness of the Cosmic Process
IV Can it be that the Cosmic Process has no Relation to Moral Ends?
V First Stages in the Genesis of Man
VI The Central Fact in the Genesis of Man
VII The Chief Cause of Man's lengthened Infancy
IX Origin of Moral Ideas and Sentiments
X The Cosmic Process exists purely for the Sake of Moral Ends
XI Maternity and the Evolution of Altruism
XII The Omnipresent Ethical Trend
THE EVERLASTING REALITY OF RELIGION
II The Reign of Law, and the Greek Idea of God
IV Religion's First Postulate: the Quasi-Human God
V Religions Second Postulate: the undying Human Soul
VI Religions Third Postulate: the Ethical Significance of the Unseen World
VII Is the Substance of Religion a Phantom, or an Eternal Reality?
VIII The Fundamental Aspect of Life
IX How the Evolution of Senses expands the World
X Nature's Eternal Lesson is the Everlasting Reality of Religion
