The Liberal Mind

Index

 181 Absolutism, ethical, 169 Acte gratuit, 120 Action, 107–8 Adjustment: to the environment, 77–78, 136; of interests, 132 Agreement, ultimate, illusion of, 70–79, 175–76 Alienation, 177 Ambition, 168–69 American foreign policy, 87 American Revolution, 153 Anarchism, 40, 59 Animism, 172 Anti-authoritarian criticism, 56 Antimaterialism, 167 Apartheid, 89 Apathy, 109, 127–28, 129, 168 Arens, Richard, 37 Aristotle, 17, 19, 23, 51, 81, 146 Artistic movements, 114 Art of Liberal Living, 24 Aspiration, society as, 123–31, 165 Athens, 145–46, 150 Austerity, 98 Authorities, limitations on the power of, 55–56 Bacon, Francis, 58, 176 Bauer, Peter: Dissent on Development, x Bay of Pigs invasion, 87 Behavior: commonsense explanations of, 20; principles of, 63–64 Bentham, Jeremy, 58, 117; on desires, 95; preference for self-interest, 121; science of happiness, 36–39, 43, 98; on society, 17; on suffering, 6 Beyond the Fringe, viii Bourgeoisie, 14 Britain: attitude toward Nazi Germany, 174; welfare state in, 164 Bruce, Lenny, viii Building, metaphor of, 102 Bureaucratization, 163 Calculation, 25–26; uses of, 31–39 Caricatures, ix Category guilt, 173 Causal discontinuity, 104–5 Charles I, 160 Child labor, 7 Children, and doctrine of needs, 95 Class hierarchies, 11–12 Classical liberalism, vs. modern, 13, 96–97, 159–60 Classicism, 169 Collectivism, 59 Colonial liberation movements, 11 Common good, 86, 110 Communism, 61, 98 Communist Manifesto, 111 Comparative status, preoccupation with, 50, 102, 171–73 Compassion, ix, 6 Compromise, 76 Conflict: politics and, 79; removal of pretexts for, 76–77, 79; of values, 73 Conservatism, political, 169 Continuous self, 49 Contracts, 27 Corporate state, 167 Courage, 146 Criticism, 101, 102, 103, 108 Cromwellian Commonwealth, 58 Crusoe, Robinson, 27 Cynicism, viii–ix, x–xi Death, 25 Death penalty, 2 Deceit, in politics, 87 Deliberative thinking, 149–50 Democracy: democratic duty of participation , 127–29; paradox of omnipotence and impotence, 161–62 Democratic Party, 12 Dependence, 153, 164 Descartes, René, 22 Desires: conflicts of, 21–22; duty as compulsive , 33; governance of by reason, 29; man as a creature of, 21–22, 35; modifications of, 46; object of, 35–36; philosophies of, 40; Puritan distrust of, 40–46; social consequences of, 40; vs. need, 91–92 Determinist trends, 111 Diana, Princess of Wales, x Differences, 76 Discontinuity, 49; causal, 104–5 Disinterested acts, 120, 122 Doctrine, 13, 122 Dogma, 15–16, 140, 142 “Doing,” 107 Duty, 46, 68–69; as compulsive desire, 33; of democratic participation, 127–29; to improve human condition, 99–100; understanding as a, 116–17 Economic interests, 121 Economic man, 167 Education: and free enquiry, 141–42; government as a branch of, 37; hopes and expectations for, 140; as impulse toward understanding, 138; as instrument of industrial advance, 140; and society, 137–44; values of, 141 Elastic demand, 75 Elect, concept of, 40, 41 Engels, Friedrich, 13–14 English Civil War, 56 Enthusiasm, 27 Environmentalism, 8 Epicureans, 40 Equality, 24 Essay on Liberty, 139 Ethics: legitimate desiring as beginning of, 33; and politics, 61–62, 83; teleological, 118 Excess, 25 Existentialism, 68 Fabians, 59, 107 Fanaticism, 58–59, 111, 149 Fantasy, political, 179 Fascism, 75, 88, 167 Fashion, 113, 115, 142 Fear, 179 Feeling, 107 Flaubert, Gustave, 114; Madame Bovary, 65 Flexibility, 76; rational, 26–27 Flugel, J. C., 116, 117 Free choice, 149 Free cooperation, and respect for truth, 147–48 Freedom: conditions of, 156–57; and institutional creativity, 152; as a manner of Index 182 behavior, 157; as a manner of living, 145–55; and nationalism, 153–58; paradox of, 11–12; political, 155–56, 158; and public provision, 161; as set of interlocking moral characteristics, 145–46, 155, 156; and spontaneity, 155–59; and virtue, 151 Freedom of enquiry, 139–40 Free States: arising from compromise between feudal and commercial classes, 154; individuals in, 151; resistance to professionalism , 150 French Revolution, 153 Freud, Sigmund, 70, 106 Friedan, Betty, viii Full life, standardization of, 170–71 Functionalism, 78, 79, 119–20 Generic man, xii, 62, 72, 136; and need, 99; structure of, 46–54; as system of functions , 118–20 Gide, André, 120 Ginsberg, Morris, 32, 124 Godwin, William, 37 Good acts, disinterestedness of, 122 Good intentions, 106 Goodness, 67 Government: as a branch of education, 37; by consent, 56–57 Green, T. H., vii Guilt, middle-class, 11 Happiness: advantage of welfare over, 43; defined, 38; and prosperity, xi; pursuit of, 58 Hare, R. M., 64...