Janaro Custom Index, 6th Edition
From Janaro and Altshuler, The Art of Being Human,
Sixth Edition
Pages 19-43 (Chapter 2), pages 577-613 (Chapter 16), pages 363-471 (Chapters 10-12), pages 615-642 (Chapter 17), pages 541-575 (Chapter 15) pages 653-685 (Chapter 18)
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Adler, Mortimer J., 317, 396, 479
afterlife, 587–590
in Christianity, 588
in Judaism, 588–589
Agee, James
A Death in the Family, 584
aging, fear of, 596–598
Agnosticism, 393–394
Alexander, Jane, 653
Anaximander, 380–381
Apollonian/Dionysian elements
as defined by Nietzsche, 19–21
in art, 35–37
in drama, 37–38
in the human personality, 21–25
in music, 34–35
in poetry, 33–34
in popular culture, 38–40
in religion, 25–29
Arabian Nights, The, 546
Aristotle, 380, 384,
Atheism, 393–394
Auselmo, Giovanni
The Structure That Eats, color plate 30
auteurism
in Europe, 341–347
in the United States, 347–355
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Bentham, Jeremy, 444–446
feminist objections to, 446–449
Benton, Thomas Hart
Arts of the South, illus., 665
Bernstein, Leonard,
On the Town, 625
West Side Story, 239–240, 549–550
Bible, The (Christian)
The Book of Revelation, 436
feminist view of Jesus, 448
New Testament, 457–458
Bible, The (Hebrew)
Adam and Eve, 516–517
The Ten Commandments, 451, 455–457
Bierstadt, Albert
The Rocky Mountains, illus., 630
Big Bang theory, 363, 367, 588
Bloom, Allan
The Closing of the American Mind, 452–453
and moral relativism, 452
Bogart, Humphrey, 39
Brecht, Bertolt, 32
Buber, Martin
I/Thou, 464–465
Buddhism, 401–404, 407–415
Bodhidharma, 413
Dharma, 410–413
Four Noble Truths, 411
eightfold path, 410–411
meditation, 414–416
photograph of meditators in zendo, 386
the middle way, 410
nirvana in, 407–409
samsara, 412
Zen, 413–415
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 559
Byron, Lord
controversial life style, 667
“She Walks in Beauty,” 548
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Camus, Albert, 465, 469, 497
Capra, Frank
It Happened One Night, 322–324, 442
It’s a Wonderful Life, 442–443
Capra, Fritjof
The Tao of Physics, 418
Carson, Rachel
Silent Spring, 643
Cervantes, Miguel de
Don Quixote, 498, 554, 559
illus., 555
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 546–547
Chekhov, Anton, 119–120
The Seagull, 593
Chicago, Judy
The Dinner Party, color plate 29
Clurman, Harold, 683
Confucius, 561–562
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness, 642–644, 648
Congreve, William, 566
The Way of the World, 556–557
courtly love, 553–555
Crime and Punishment, 458
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Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, 646
Dante (Alighieri), 552–553
The Inferno, 588, 601
Darwin, Charles,
The Origin of Species, 385
David, Jacques-Louis
Death of Socrates, illus., 588
death
in music, 585–586
in the popular arts, 579, 581, 583, 597
de Beauvoir, Simone, 465, 573
Delacroix, Eugène
Horse Frightened by Storm, illus., 629
de Maupassant, Guy
“Ball of Fat,” 434
Diary of Anne Frank, The, 492–494, 676
photograph from play, 677
Divine Comedy, The, 552–553, 588, 601
Don Quixote, 134, 498, 554–555, 559
Donne, John
Meditation: “No man is an island,” 441
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” 589–590
Don’t Bet on the Prince, 571
Douglas, Lord Alfred, 669
Douglas, Marjory Stoneman
The Everglades: River of Grass, 644
Duchamp, Marcel, 182, 663
Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2, color plate 24
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Einstein, Albert, 186, 367–368
Special Theory of Relativity, 385–386
Eleanor of Aquitaine
and Courtly Love tradition, 553–554
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 15, 132
“American Scholar,” 627
“Brahma,” 405
“Nature,” 616–617
empiricism, 376–378
Ensor, James
Intrigue, illus., 592
environmentalism
in As You Like It, 620–621
in Christianity, 615
in Frankenstein, 635–637
in Gulliver’s Travels, 638–639
in Heart of Darkness, 642–644
in Into Thin Air, 635
in Islam, 615
in Judaism, 615, 617–619
in Native American literature, 639–642
in The Perfect Storm, 634
in Romantic literature and art,
625–634
Epictetus, 468
and Stoicism, 485–486
attitude toward death, 579
Epicurus
epistemology, 368–378
definition of, 369
Euripides
Hippolytus, 543–544
existentialism, 462–467
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feminist ethics, 446–449
Ferris, Timothy, 396
Fielding, Henry, 559
Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler, 448
Forms, Plato’s Theory of the, 370–374
attacked by John Locke, 376
and Christianity, 383–384
Frank, Anne, 676
Fromm, Erich, 574
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Gandhi, Mohandas K., 422, 495, 500, 502
Gautama, Siddhartha, 407–413
Gelbart, Larry, 646
Gleick, James, 396
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 404
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies, 42
Gould, Stephen Jay, 396
Goya, Francisco
The Third of May, illus., 36
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 675
Gulliver’s Travels, 638–639
Gurganus, Alan, 674
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Hawking, Stephen, 367, 386
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
The Scarlet Letter, 27
Hellman, Lillian, 559–560
Hemingway, Ernest, 578
A Farewell to Arms, 441
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 441
suicide of, 606
Heraclitus, 381
Hesse, Hermann
Siddhartha, 420
Hinduism, 403–407
Brahman, 404–405
karma, 406–407
nirvana in, 407
trinity of gods, 405–406
photograph of Shiva, 406
Hobbes, Thomas
Leviathan, 436–437
Hoch, Danny, 675–676
Homer, 543
Homer, Winslow, 632–633
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
“Spring and Fall,” 584–585
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 670–674
Hughes, Ted, 605
Hume, David,
skepticism, definition of, 377
A Treatise of Human Nature, 377–378
Hunt, Morton M., 568
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idiot savants
and theories of knowledge, 373
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James, Henry
The Heiress (stage adaptation of Washington Square),
563–564
photograph from, 564
James, William, 387
Jefferson, Thomas, 378
Johnson, Samuel, 568
Joyce, James, 525
Ulysses, censorship of, 661–663
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Kant, Immanuel
Categorical Imperative, 444–446
feminist objections to, 446
Kazantzakis, Nikos
The Last Temptation of Christ, 657–658
Zorba the Greek, 42
Keats, John
“After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains,” 590
Khayyám, Omar
The Rubaiyat, 546
Kierkegaard, Søren, 463–464
Fear and Trembling, 463
Kimmelman, Michael, 655
Kincaid, Jamaica
My Brother, 612
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 420, 445
Kohlberg, Lawrence, 447–448
Kokoschka, Oskar
Krakauer, Jon
Into Thin Air, 635, 649
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Lao-Tzu, 415–420
Tao Te Ching, 420
La Rochefoucauld, François, Duc de, 541, 542, 581
Lawrence, D. H.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, censorship trial of, 663
Leucippus, 382–383
Lewis, Edmonia, 678–679
Locke, John, 376–377
Lucretius, 383
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Machiavelli, Niccolò
The Prince, 435–436
Mahler, Alma Schindler, 680–682
Mahler, Gustav, 680–681
Marcus Aurelius, 443, 486
Mariolatry (cult of the Virgin), 550
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Love in the Time of Cholera, 588–591
materialism, philosophy of, 382–383
McCarthy, Joseph, 672
McDaniel, Hattie, 674
Medoff, Mark
Children of a Lesser God, 596–597
Melville, Herman, 14, 578, 655
Moby Dick, ambiguity in, 138
nature in, 632–634
Michelangelo (Buonarotti), 37, 165–169, 655–656
David, 37
Mill, John Stuart, 154
The Tyranny of the Majority, 460–462
Miller, Arthur
The Crucible, 673
photograph from, 673
Milne, A. A.
Winnie the Pooh, Taoism in, 418–419
Minor, Wendell
The Last Call, illus., 645
Mohammed, 458
mythology, 399–427
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Nabokov, Vladimir
Lectures on Literature, 42
Native American literature, 639–642
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, 641–643
Crowfoot, 640
Holy Woman of Wintu Nation, 640–641
Young Chief of Cayuse Nation, 640
Newman, Paul, 559–560
Newton, Sir Isaac, 367, 384–385
Nochlin, Linda
“Why There Are No Great Women Artists,”
676–678
Norman, Marsha
’night Mother, 606–607
Norris, Kathleen
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, 646
Nottebohm, Andreas
KN1102, 1990, illus., 381
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O’Brien, Tim
Going after Caccioto, 441–442
O’Connor, Frank
“The Idealist,” 435
Odets, Clifford, 683
O’Keeffe, Georgia
Purple Petunias, color plate 19
O’Neill, Eugene
Ah, Wilderness! 562–563
Long Day’s Journey into Night, 599–600
opera
Mozart, W. A., The Marriage of Figaro, 568
Giacomo Puccini, La Boheme, 569
Guiseppe Verdi, La Traviata, 569
Orozco, José Clemente
Victims, illus., 652
O’Sullivan, John Louis
“Manifest Destiny,” 623
Ovid, 555
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Pal Joey, 569
Parmenides, 381–382
parody
Parsons, Linnea
and rational suicide, 604–605
Peirce, Charles Sanders
atheist argument, 393–394
Picasso, Pablo
The Lovers, illus., 549
The Tragedy, illus., 576
Pitts, Jr., Leonard, 601
Plath, Sylvia, 605–606
Plato, 542–543, 557–558
The Republic, 366, 431–433
theory of love, 542–543, 557–558
Poitier, Sidney, 675
Protagoras, 365–366
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Qur’an, The (Koran), 458
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Ramirez, Pascuaia
Bosque Amigo, illus., 372
Rand, Ayn, 438–439, 470
Raphael (Sanzio), 162–163
The School of Athens, illus., 370
rationalism, 373–378
Rawls, John, 449
Redford, Robert, 559–560
Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)
Sacrifice of Isaac, illus. 428
rituals
forgiveness (Tashlikh), 609
Rivera, Diego, 658–660
Man, Controller of the Universe (mural), illus., 659
Robeson, Paul, 671–672
photograph of, from Othello, 275
photograph of, from Showboat, 672
Rockefeller, Nelson, 658–660
Rodgers, Richard
Pal Joey, 569
romantic love, 548–553
Romanticism, 616, 626–629
adoration of nature, 644–645
myth of Bohemian artist, 667–668
Roosevelt, Theodore, 616
Rubens, Peter Paul
Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, illus., 542
Rushdie, Salman
The Satanic Verses, 657
Russell, Bertrand, 369
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Saint Augustine, 389–391
Confessions, 389–390
doctrine of faith, 391
and predestination, 391
theory of evil, 390–391
Saint Thomas Aquinas
arguments for existence of God, 391–393
Sand, George, 667–668
Sandburg, Carl
Chicago, 625
Sappho, 120
“Hail, gentle Evening,” 622
Sartre, Jean-Paul
and existentialism, 465–467
Schubert, Franz
Death and the Maiden, 586
Scorsese, Martin
Last Temptation of Christ, The, 355, 656–668
Seeger, Pete, 672–673
Segal, George
Bus Riders, illus., 454
self-interest, theories of, 430–439
Bentham versus Kant on subject, 444–446
challenges to, 439–446
Seurat, Georges
Sunday on the Island of La Grand Jatte, illus., 567
Sexton, Anne, 606
Shakespeare, William
As You Like It, 557–558, 620–621, 644
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, 557–558
Much Ado About Nothing, 557
Romeo and Juliet 548–550, 557
Venus and Adonis, 547–548
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 635–637
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, 636–637
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
The School for Scandal, 598–599
Shostakovich, Dimitri, 665
Smith, Adam, 437–438
Socrates, 364–367, 402
debate with Glaucon on self-interest, 431–432
debate with Thrasymachus on justice, 366
death of, 365, 432–433, 587
Death of Socrates, illus., 588
and the Sophists, 366–367
on suicide, 604
and the Theory of the Forms, 371
Sondheim, Stephen, 239–240
Company, 569
Song of Songs, The, 546
Sophocles, 562
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath, 56, 115, 404
Stella, Joseph
Brooklyn Bridge, 624
Sting, The, 559
Stone, Oliver, 337
Wall Street, 439–440
Strauss, Richard
Death and Transfiguration, 585–586
Stravinsky, Igor, 242
The Rite of Spring, 666–667
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver’s Travels, 638–639
Synge, John Millington,
The Playboy of the Western World, 661
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Taoism, 415–421
The Tao of Pooh, 418–419
wu wei, 417
yin/yang principle, 416
illus., 421
television classics, analysis of
Northern Exposure, 645–646
Ten Commandments, The, 451, 455–457, 561
Terkel, Studs
Working, 455
Thales, 380
Thelma and Louise, 560
Thoreau, Henry David, 460
Thurber, James
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” 595
Tong, Rosemarie, 448
Tolstoy, Leo
The Death of Ivan Ilych, 612
Trungpa, Chögyam, 412, 422–423
Turner, J. M. W., 632–633
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), 559
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Uelsmann, Jerry
photograph by, 371
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van Gogh, Vincent, 578, 605,
654–655, 665
The Starry Night, color plate 11
A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, illus., 178
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 654
Veblen, Thorstein
The Theory of the Leisure Class, 422
Victoria, Queen
impact on middle-class marriage, 565–567
moral influence, 27, 31
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), 565
von Lichtenstein, Ulrich, 554–555
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Wagner, Richard, 527–528
love/death in Tristan and Isolde, 552
Waller, James
The Bridges of Madison County, 553
Warner, Sylvia Townsend
The Corner That Held Them, 546
Wasserstein, Wendy
The Heidi Chronicles, 568
White, E. B
“I Paint What I See,” 659–660
Whitman, Walt, 610
“Manahatta,” 623–625
Wilde, Oscar, 558, 661
The Importance of Being Earnest, 668
photograph from film, 668
photograph of, 670
trial and conviction for homosexuality, 668–670
Wilder, Thornton
Our Town as play, 563, 589
Williams, Robin, 608
Williams, Tennessee, 656
women in the arts, 676–682
Woolf, Virginia
A Room of One’s Own, 678–680
Wordsworth, William, 627–629
definition of poetry, 32
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,”
628–629
“My heart leaps up when I behold,” 603–604
“The world is too much with us,” 629
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yin/yang, principle of, in Taoism, 416–417
depiction of, 421
Table of Contents for Reference
From Janaro and Altshuler, The Art of Being Human,
Sixth Edition
CHAPTER 2
Apollo and Dionysus 19
Overview 19
Personal Applications 21
Walking 21
The Weekend 22
Food 23
Sex 23
Institutions 25
Religion 25
Education 30
The Arts 31
Poetry 33
Music 34
Visual Art 35
Drama 37
Popular Culture 38
Epilogue 40
Glossary 41
Endnotes 41
Suggested Reading 42
Suggested Web Sites 43
Topics for Writing and Discussion 43
Part II
Examining Our Lives
From Janaro and Altshuler, The Art of Being Human,
Sixth Edition
CHAPTER 16
Death Attitudes and
Life Affirmation 577
Overview 577
Images of Death 578
“Death” in the Popular Arts 579
Humor 581
The Magnification of Death 582
The Medicalization of Death 583
Death and Children 584
Death in Music 585
The Last Days of Socrates 586
Life After Death 587
Fatalism 590
Symbolic Death 591
Unworth 592
Giving Up 593
Symbolic Suicide 594
Fear of Aging 596
Symbolic Murder 598
Models of Life Affirmation 601
The Phoenix 601
There Is Only Now 603
Reinventing Ourselves 604
The Forgiveness Ritual 607
Epilogue 609
Glossary 611
Endnotes 611
Suggested Reading 611
Suggested Web Sites 613
Topics for Writing and Discussion 613
From Janaro and Altshuler, The Art of Being Human,
Sixth Edition
CHAPTER 10
The Philosopher of the West 363
Overview 363
Profile of the Philosopher of the West 364
Questions of Mind 368
Plato’s Theory of the Forms 370
Rationalism 373
Empiricism 376
Questions of Reality 378
Some Early Western Answers to Questions of Reality 380
The First Atomic Theory 382
The Ongoing Question of How Existence Began 383
Questions of Divinity 387
Philosophy and Religion 387