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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas

Preface to the Electronic Edition

II.

PSYCHOLOGICAL IDEASIN ANTIQUITY

II.

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCHOOLSIN EUROPEAN THOUGHT

II.

PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIESIN AMERICAN THOUGHT

VI.

PYTHAGOREAN DOCTRINESTO 300 B.C.

VI.

PYTHAGOREAN HARMONYOF THE UNIVERSE

VI.

VI.

RATIONALITY AMONG THEGREEKS AND ROMANS

III.

REALISM IN LITERATURE

I.

VI.

VI.

RELATIVISM IN ETHICS

I.

VI.

ORIGINS OF RELIGION

VI.

RITUAL IN RELIGION

VI.

RELIGION AND SCIENCE INTHE NINETEENTH CENTURY

VI.

RELIGIOUS ENLIGHTENMENTIN AMERICAN THOUGHT

VI.

RELIGIOUS TOLERATION

IV.

IDEA OF RENAISSANCE

IV.

RENAISSANCE HUMANISM

II.

RENAISSANCE IDEAOF THE DIGNITY OF MAN

IV.

RENAISSANCE LITERATUREAND HISTORIOGRAPHY

V.

III.

RHETORIC AFTER PLATO

VI.

III.

ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE

III.

ROMANTICISM(ca. 1780-ca. 1830)

V.

ROMANTICISM INPOLITICAL THOUGHT

VI.

ROMANTICISM INPOST-KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY

III.

III.

VICTORIAN SENSIBILITYAND SENTIMENT

VI.

SIN AND SALVATION

VI.

SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY

VI.

SKEPTICISM INMODERN THOUGHT

V.

SOCIAL CONTRACT

V.

SOCIAL DEMOCRACYIN GERMANY AND REVISIONISM

VII.

FORMAL THEORIES OFSOCIAL WELFARE

V.

SOCIALISM FROMANTIQUITY TO MARX

I.

I.

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION

V.

VI.

ETHICS OF STOICISM

VII.

III.

STYLE IN LITERATURE

III.

SUBLIME INEXTERNAL NATURE

III.

SYMBOL AND SYMBOLISMIN LITERATURE

VII.

SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY

III.

TASTE IN THE HISTORYOF AESTHETICS FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO 1770

I.

III.

TEMPERANCE (SŌPHROSYNĒ)AND THE CANON OF THE CARDINAL VIRTUES

VI.

II.

VI.

I.

TIME AND MEASUREMENT

V.

TOTALITARIANISM

III.

SENSE OF THE TRAGIC

I.

UNIFORMITARIANISMAND CATASTROPHISM

VII.

UNIFORMITARIANISMIN LINGUISTICS

VII.

UNITY OF SCIENCEFROM PLATO TO KANT

II.

VI.

V.

UTILITY AND VALUEIN ECONOMIC THOUGHT

V.

I.

Ut PICTURA POESIS

II.

VIRTÙIN AND SINCE THE RENAISSANCE

II.

IV.

V.

V.

WAR AND MILITARISM

V.

II.

WISDOM OF THE FOOL

II.

V.

SOCIAL ATTITUDESTOWARDS WOMEN

V.

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DICTIONARY
OF THE HISTORY
OF IDEAS

DICTIONARY
OF THE HISTORY
OF IDEAS

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas

PHILIP P. WIENER
EDITOR IN CHIEF
VOLUME IV
Psychological Ideas in Antiquity
TO
Zeitgeist

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS ·

NEW YORK

Copyright © 1968, 1973 Charles Scribner's Sons
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“Agnosticism”
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“Ambiguity as Aesthetic Principle”
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Library, by permission of Harvard University Press
from Camoens: The Lusiads, trans. W. C. Atkinson, copyright
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from The Odes of Pindar, trans. Richmond Lattimore, copyright
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“Catharsis”
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copyright 1925, by permission of The Clarendon Press, Oxford
“Cosmology”
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