# Egotism in German Philosophy/Index

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
Caesar 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
Dürer, 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