Prologue: Finitude and Transcendence in Human Experience Our Dreamlike and Vertiginous Existence Philosophy This Book: Its Scope, Plan, and Character 1. Ontology (as Natural Philosophy and Social Theory) The Study of What the World Is Like The Rejection of Metaphysical Rationalism The Philosophy of Deep Structure and Its Afterlife in Natural Science The Philosophy of the Timeless One Temporal Naturalism Mathematics: The World Emptied Out of Time and Phenomenal Particularity Causality and Time No Kingdom within a Kingdom: Deep Structure, Dualism, and Temporal Naturalism The Human Difference, without Dualism The Message of This Ontology 2. Epistemology (as Inquiry into Inquiry) Epistemology and Its Discontents The Denial of Finitude and Transcendence in Epistemology The Mistakes of Epistemology Further Examined The Agent of Inquiry and His Capabilities The Idea of a Program of Inquiry The First Crisis: Fundamental Physics and Its Denial of Time, Change, and Causality The Second Crisis: The Social Sciences and the Suppression of Structural Vision The Intellectual Division of Labor and the Marriage of Method to Subject Matter Implications for Natural Science Implications for the Social Sciences, the Normative Public Disciplines, and the Humanities Genius Reimagined A Coda to Epistemology: Art 3. The Human Condition: Becoming More Human by Becoming More Godlike The Hinge of Philosophy Impenetrable Darkness: The Amazing Situation Finitude: Groundlessness Finitude: Mortality Transcendence: Desire Transcendence: Imagination Transcendence: Refusal of Belittlement Finitude and Transcendence as Connecting Threads in the Human Condition Finitude and Transcendence Reinterpreted: The Semitic Monotheisms and Their Narrative of Redemption Finitude and Transcendence Reinterpreted: The Idea of One and the Timeless One The Contradictory Requirements for Sustaining a Self 4. Ethics (as Clarity about the Conduct of Life) Ethics and Its Work The Christian Faith and the Conduct of Life The Secular Romance The School Philosophy Finding a Point of Departure in a Contemporary Contest of Moral Visions 5. Two Ways To Die Only Once The Ethic of Self-fashioning and Non-conformity The Ethic of Connection and Responsibility 6. The Unresolved Contest Between the Ethics of Self-Fashioning and of Connection The Dust of History: The United States, China, and the Two Ethics The Twin Functional Imperatives of the Advanced Societies The Impossible Synthesis between the Two Ethics A Duality in Our Moral Consciousness 7. Politics (as Struggle over the Future of Society) Finitude and Transcendence in Politics Our Moment in History and World Revolution The Theory of Regimes: Imagining the Structure of a Society Sources of a Direction A Direction: From Shallow Equality to Deep Freedom A Direction: Deep Freedom and Practical Empowerment in History A Direction: Deep Freedom and the Contradictions of the Self The Haven and the Storm 8.

Politics: The Program of Deep Freedom The Idea of an Institutional Program Democratizing the Market Economy Deepening Democracy Cohesion and Freedom: The Self-Organization of Civil Society Education: Capability and Prophecy Deep Freedom and World Order Epilogue Index of Proper Names and Works Index of Subjects.