Philosophy, Religion, and the Coming World Civilization

I / Metaphysics and Experience.- I. Hocking's Metaphysics: Analyses and Evaluations.- The Making of a Philosopher: Ernest Hocking's Early Years.- Solipsism Surmounted.- Hocking's Place in American Metaphysics.- Hocking and the Dilemmas of Modernity.- Hocking's Contribution to Metaphysical Idealism.- Idealism and Our Experience of Nature.- Preface to Privacy.- Integrity.- 2. Related Problems: Evil, Selfhood, Existence and Artistic Responsibility.- The Problem of Evil.- Is the Self an Ultimate Category?.- Existence and the Life World.- Word Versus Deed in Plato.- II / Religious Philosophy and the World's Living Religions.- I. The Problem of Religious Knowledge.- A Half-Century of Hocking's Reflection.- Empiricism in Religious Philosophy.- Biblical Faith and Philosophic Truth.- The Spirit of Indian Philosophy.- 2. The Ecumenical Spirit in the World's Living Religions.- Tambaram:Twenty-Five Years After.- The Role and Responsibility of the Christian Mission.- Religious Diversity and Religious Reconception.- Problems of Religious Freedom.- Fellowship of the Spirit.- III / Philosophy, Society and a World Civilization.- I. The Meaning of Contemporary History.- Philosophy, Society and Civilization.- Reflections on the Literature of Whither Mankind.- The Interplay of Physics, Politics and Religion in Today's World.- Pan-Humanism, Culturism and the Federal Union of Europe.- 2. The Meeting of East and West.- Professor Hocking and East-West Philosophy.- Valid Materialism: A Western Offering to Hocking's Civilization in the Singular.- Indian Philosophy and the West.- Human Personality in East-West Perspectives.- It is Time to Remind the West.- Conclusion.- History and the Absolute.- The Bibliography of William Ernest Hocking.