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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas

Preface to the Electronic Edition

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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.

II. The history of ideas about human nature in anthropology, psychology, religion, and philosophy as well as in literature and common sense.

III. The history of ideas in literature and the arts in aesthetic theory and literary criticism.

IV. The history of ideas about or attitudes to history, historiography, and historical criticism.

V. The historical development of economic, legal, and political ideas and institutions, ideologies, and movements.

VI. The history of religious and philosophical ideas.

VII. The history of formal mathematical, logical, linguistic, and methodological ideas.

LIST OF ARTICLES

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

NOTE TO THE READER

VI.

ABSTRACTION IN THE FORMATION OF CONCEPTS

V.

ACADEMIC FREEDOM

VI.

I.

VI.

ALIENATION IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY

V.

ALIENATION IN HEGELAND MARX

III.

ALLEGORY INLITERARY HISTORY

III.

AMBIGUITY ASAESTHETIC PRINCIPLE

VI.

ANALOGY INEARLY GREEK THOUGHT

VI.

ANALOGY IN PATRISTICAND MEDIEVAL THOUGHT

V.

ANALOGY OF THEBODY POLITIC

V.

III.

ANCIENTS AND MODERNS INTHE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

VII.

ANTHROPOMORPHISMIN SCIENCE

VI.

ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON

VI.

APPEARANCE AND REALITY

III.

III.

ART FOR ART'S SAKE

II.

ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS

I.

I.

ATOMISM: ANTIQUITY TO THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

I.

ATOMISM IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

V.

VII.

VI.

V.

BALANCE OF POWER

III.

BAROQUE IN LITERATURE

III.

THEORIES OF BEAUTY TOTHE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

III.

THEORIES OF BEAUTY SINCETHE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

II.

I.

BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTIONSIN ANTIQUITY

I.

BIOLOGICAL HOMOLOGIESAND ANALOGIES

I.

BIOLOGICAL MODELS

VI.

VII.

III.

VII.

VII.

CAUSATION IN HISTORY

VII.

CAUSATION INISLAMIC THOUGHT

V.

CAUSATION IN LAW

VI.

CAUSATION IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

VI.

CAUSATION IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY, FINAL CAUSES

VI.

CERTAINTY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHT

VI.

CERTAINTY SINCE THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

VI.

VII.

III.

IV.

CHINA IN WESTERN THOUGHTAND CULTURE

VI.

CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY

VI.

CHURCH AS ANINSTITUTION

VI.

MODERNISM IN THECHRISTIAN CHURCH

V.

V.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

V.

III.

CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE

III.

CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS

VII.

CLASSIFICATION OFTHE SCIENCES

III.

SENSE OF THE COMIC

I.

CONSERVATION OFNATURAL RESOURCES

V.

V.

CONSTITUTIONALISM

VII.

CONTINUITY ANDDISCONTINUITY IN NATURE AND KNOWLEDGE

VI.

I.

I.

I.

COSMOLOGY FROMANTIQUITY TO 1850

I.

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850

VI.

CREATION IN RELIGION

III.

CREATIVITY IN ART

IV.

CRISIS IN HISTORY

III.

LITERARY CRITICISM

IV.

CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTIN ANTIQUITY

IV.

CULTURE AND CIVILIZATIONIN MODERN TIMES

IV.

VI.

VI.

DEATH AND IMMORTALITY

VI.

V.

III.

VI.

DESIGN ARGUMENT

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Christianity: the religion which grew out of the
Jewish faith as transformed by the worship of Jesus
Christ after the Resurrection, and which, by combina-
tion with Greek culture and the conversion of a great
part of the Roman Empire, took a systematized form
as “historical Christianity,” having its chief basis in
Europe and presiding over the development of Western
civilization until recent centuries.