Homo Sapiens as a Problem

Horror vacui

Philosophical Essay on Human nature, Death, Immortality of Soul, Religion, Ideology, and Evolution

(the text #7)

The terror of void

Contents

1 The basic fact of the human will

The perpetual impulse
The protoplasm of human intentions
Modus operandi of the primordial world
The trick of the mind

2 Two ages

The spiritual epoch
The dual challenge
An unresolved contradiction
Seeking for newest testament
The expanse for ideology

3 The watershed

The aesthetics of morality
The power of idea and power over people
The ultimate value
The double bottom

4 A bargain with eternity

Inventing afterlife
Posthumous trajectory
The roundabout manoeuvre

5 The call of the ancient dead