Dictionary of the History of Ideas Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas |
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I. The history of ideas about the external order of nature studied by the physical and biological sciences, ideas also present in common usage, imaginative literature, myths about nature, metaphysical speculation.
Alchemy | Genetic Continuity |
Astrology | Health and Disease |
Atomism: Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century | Indeterminacy in Physics |
Atomism in the Seventeenth Century | Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics (Lamarckian) |
Biological Conceptions in Antiquity | Inheritance through Pangenesis |
Biological Homologies and Analogies | Longevity |
Biological Models | Changing Concepts of Matter from Antiquity to Newton |
Conservation of Natural Resources | Nature |
Cosmic Images | Newton and the Method of Analysis |
Cosmic Voyages | Optics and Vision |
Cosmology from Antiquity to 1850 | Orgranicism |
Cosmology since 1850 | Recapitulation |
Entropy | Relativity |
Environment | Space |
Environment and Culture | Spontaneous Generation |
Evolutionism | Technology |
Experimental Science and Mechanics in the Middle Ages | Time and Measurement |
Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism |
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II. The history of ideas about human nature in anthropology, psychology, religion, and philosophy as well as in literature and common sense.
Association of Ideas | Psychological Ideas in Antiquity |
Behaviorism | Psychological Schools in European Thought |
Empathy | Psychological Theories in American Thought |
Imprinting and Learning Early in Life | Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man |
Types of Individualism | Theriophily |
Love | Universal Man |
Man-Machine from the Creeks to the Computer | Virtù in and since the Renaissance |
Pre-Platonic Conceptions of Human Nature | Virtuoso |
Primitivism | Wisdom of the Fool |
Primitivism in the Eighteenth Century | Witchcraft |
III. The history of ideas in literature and the arts in aesthetic theory and literary criticism.
Allegory in Literary History | Demonology |
Ambiguity as Aesthetic Principle | Evolution of Literature |
Ancients and Moderns in the Eighteenth Century | Expressionism in Literature |
Art and Play | Form in the History of Aesthetics |
Art for Art's Sake | Genius from the Renaissance to 1770 |
Baroque in Literature | Genius: Individualism in Art and Artists |
Theories of Beauty to the Mid-Nineteenth Century | Musical Genius |
Theories of Beauty since the Mid-Nineteenth Century | Concept of Gothic |
Catharsis | Harmony or Rapture in Music |
Chance Images | Iconography |
Classicism in Literature | Impressionism in Art |
Classification of the Arts | Irony |
Sense of the Comic | Literature and Its Cognates |
Creativity in Art | Literary Paradox |
Literary Criticism | Millenarianism |
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Mimesis | Periodization in Literary History |
Motif | Rhetoric and Literary Theory in Platonism |
Motif in Literature; The Faust Theme | Poetry and Poetics from Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century |
Literary Attitudes Toward Mountains | Realism in Literature Music and Science |
Music as a Demonic Art | Rhetoric after Plato |
Music as a Divine Art | Romanticism in Literature |
Myth in Antiquity | Romanticism (ca. 1780-ca. 1830) |
Myth in Biblical Times | Satire |
Myth in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | Victorian Sensibility and Sentiment |
Myth in English Literature: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | Style in Literature |
Sublime in External Nature | |
Myth in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | Symbol and Symbolism in Literature |
Myth in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | Taste in the History of Aesthetics from the Renaissance to 1770 |
Naturalism in Art | Temperance (Sōphrosynē) and the Canon of the Cardinal Virtues |
Neo-Classicism in Art | Sense of the Tragic |
Newton's Opticks and Eighteenth-Century Imagination | Ut pictura poesis |
IV. The history of ideas about or attitudes to history, historiography, and historical criticism.
China in Western Thought and Culture | Freedom of Speech in Antiquity |
Crisis in History | Historicism |
Cultural Development in Antiquity | Historiography |
Culture and Civilization in Modern Times | The Influence of Ideas on Ancient Greek Historiography |
Cycles | |
Humanism in Italy | Determinism in History |
Enlightenment | Oriental Ideas in American Thought |
The Counter-Enlightenment | Periodization in History |
Fortune, Fate, and Chance | Progress in Classical Antiquity |
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Progress in the Modern Era | Renaissance Literature and Historiography |
Idea of Renaissance | Volksgeist |
Renaissance Humanism | Zeitgeist |
V. The historical development of economic, legal, and political ideas and institutions, ideologies, and movements.
Academic Freedom | Ideology of Soviet Communism |
Alienation in Hegel and Marx | Justice |
Analogy of the Body Politic | Ancient Greek Ideas of Law |
Anarchism | Ancient Roman Ideas of Law |
Authority | Common Law |
Balance of Power | Concept of Law |
Causation in Law | Due Process in Law |
The City | Equal Protection in Law |
Civil Disobedience | Natural Law and Natural Rights |
Class | Legal Precedent |
Conservatism | Legal Responsibility |
Constitutionalism | Liberalism |
Democracy | Loyalty |
Despotism | Machiavellism |
Economic History | Marxism |
Economic Theory of Natural Liberty | Marxist Revisionism: From Bernstein to Modem Forms |
Education | Medieval and Renaissance Ideas of Nation |
Equality | Nationalism |
Equity in Law and Ethics | International Peace |
Legal Concept of Freedom | Philanthropy |
General Will | Property |
Historical and Dialectical Materialism | Protest Movements |
Ideology | Revolution |
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Romanticism in Political Thought | Utopia | |
Social Contract | Vox populi | |
Social Democracy in Germany and Revisionism | War and Militarism | |
Socialism from Antiquity to Marx | Welfare State | |
State | Social Attitudes Towards Women | |
Totalitarianism | Work | |
Utility and Value in Economic Thought |
VI. The history of religious and philosophical ideas.
Abstraction in the Formation of Concepts | Cynicism |
Agnosticism | Death and Immortality |
Alienation in Christian Theology | Deism |
Analogy in Early Creek Thought | Design Argument |
Analogy in Patristic and Medieval Thought | Determinism in Theology: Predestination |
Antinomy of Pure Reason | Double Truth |
Appearance and Reality | Dualism in Philosophy and Religion |
Baconianism | Epicureanism and Free Will |
Buddhism | Eschatology |
Causation in the Seventeenth Century | Problem of Evil |
Causation in the Seventeenth Century, Final Causes | Existentialism |
Certainty in Seventeenth-Century Thought | Faith, Hope, and Charity |
Certainty since the Seventeenth Century | Free Will and Determinism |
Chain of Being | Free Will in Theology |
Christianity in History | Gnosticism |
Church as an Institution | Idea of God from Prehistory to the Middle Ages |
Modernism in the Christian Church | Idea of God, 1400-1800 |
Cosmic Fall | Idea of God since 1S00 |
Creation in Religion | Happiness and Pleasure |
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Hegelian Political and Religious Ideas | Positivism in Latin America |
Heresy in the Middle Ages | Positivism in the Twentieth Century (Logical Empiricism) |
Heresy, Renaissance and Later | Pragmatism |
Hermeticism | Prophecy in Hebrew Scripture |
Hierarchy and Order | Prophecy in the Middle Ages |
Holy (The Sacred) | Pythagorean Doctrines to 300 B.C. |
Idea | Pythagorean Harmony of the Universe |
Ideal in Philosophy from the Renaissance to 1780 | Ramism |
Impiety in the Classical World | Rationality among the Greeks and Romans |
Irrationalism in the History of Philosophy | Reformation |
Islamic Conception of Intellectual Life | Relativism in Ethics |
Macrocosm and Microcosm | Origins of Religion |
Metaphor in Philosophy | Ritual in Religion |
Metaphor in Religious Discourse | Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century |
Metaphysical Imagination | Religious Enlightenment in American Thought Moral Sense |
Religious Toleration | Necessity |
Right and Good | Neo-Platonism |
Romanticism in Post-Kantian Philosophy Ethics of Peace | Sin and Salvation |
Perennial Philosophy | Skepticism in Antiquity |
Perfectibility of Man | Skepticism in Modern Thought |
Pietism | Ethics of Stoicism |
Platonism in Philosophy and Poetry | |
Platonism in the Renaissance | Theodicy |
Platonism since the Enlightenment | Time |
Positivism in Europe to 1900 | Utilitarianism |
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VII. The history of formal mathematical, logical, linguistic, and methodological ideas.
Anthropomorphism in Science | Linguistics |
Axiomatization | Linguistic Theories in British Seventeenth-Century Philosophy |
Casuistry | Relativity of Standards of Mathematical Rigor |
Causation | Mathematics in Cultural History |
Causation in History | Number |
Causation in Islamic Thought | Probability: Objective Theory |
Chance | Formal Theories of Social Welfare |
Classification of the Sciences | Structuralism |
Continuity and Discontinuity in Nature and Knowledge | Symmetry and Asymmetry |
Game Theory | Uniformitarianism in Linguistics |
Infinity | Unity of Science from Plato to Kant |
Study of Language |
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