Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Abbreviations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Prologue 17
7. Part I: Mind and Reality
8. 1 The Impotent Mind 35
9. 2 Santayana’s Philosophy of Mind 47
10. 3 Fichte’s Idealism 69
11. 4 Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts 85
12. 5 The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought 97
13. 6 Primitive Naturalism 113
14. Part II: Self and Society
15. 7 Two Views of Happiness in Mill 125
16. 8 Questions of Life and Death 131
17. 9 On Selling Organs 139
18. 10 A Community of Psyches 145
19. 11 The Cost of Community 159
20. 12 Public Benefit, Private Cost 173
21. 13 Leaving Others Alone 201
22. Part III: Pluralism and Choice-Inclusive Facts
23. 14 Relativism and Its Benefits 219
24. 15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death 231
25. 16 Human Natures 251
26. 17 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons 267
27. 18 Grand Dreams of Perfect People 277
28. 19 Philosophical Pluralism 287
29. Part IV: Meaningful Living
30. 20 To Have and to Be 303
31. 21 Drugs: Th e Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences 313
32. 22 Loving Life 319
33. 23 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race 331
34. 24 Improving Life 347
35. 25 Stoic Pragmatism 363
36. 26 Pragmatism and Death 377
37. Part V: Human Advance and Finite Obligation
38. 27 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life 389
39. 28 Both Better Off and Better 399
40. 29 Education in the Twenty- First Century (with Shirley M. Lachs) 413
41. 30 Learning About Possibility 425
42. 31 Moral Holidays 435
43. 32 Good Enough 449
44. Epilogue 459
45. Notes 475
46. Further Reading 485
47. Index 495