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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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LIST OF ARTICLES
Abstraction in the Formation of Concepts | I 1 | Atomism in the Seventeenth Century | I 132 |
Academic Freedom | I 9 | Authority | I 141 |
Agnosticism | I 17 | Axiomatization | I 162 |
Alchemy | I 27 | Baconianism | I 172 |
Alienation in Christian Theology | I 34 | Balance of Power | I 179 |
Alienation in Hegel and Marx | I 37 | Baroque in Literature | I 188 |
Allegory in Literary History | I 41 | Theories of Beauty to the Mid-Nineteenth Century | I 195 |
Ambiguity as Aesthetic Principle | I 48 | Theories of Beauty .since the Mid-Nineteenth Century | I 207 |
Analogy in Early Greek Thought | 1 60 | Behaviorism | I 214 |
Analogy in Patristic and Medieval Thought | I 64 | Biological Conceptions in Antiquity | I 229 |
Analogy of the Body Politic | I 67 | Biological Homologies and Analogies | I 236 |
Anarchism | I 70 | Biological Models | I 242 |
Ancients and Modems in the Eighteenth Century | I 76 | Buddhism | I 247 |
Anthropomorphism in Science | I 87 | Casuistry | I 257 |
Antinomy of Pure Reason | I 91 | Catharsis | I 264 |
Appearance and Reality | I 94 | Causation | I 270 |
Art and Play | I 99 | Causation in History | I 279 |
Art for Art's Sake | I 108 | Causation in Islamic Thought | I 286 |
Association of Ideas | I 111 | Causation in Law | I 289 |
Astrology | I 118 | Causation in the Seventeenth Century | I 294 |
Atomism: Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century | I 126 |
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Causation in the Seventeenth Century, Final Causes | I 300 | Creativity in Art | I 577 |
Certainty in Seventeenth-Century Though | I 304 | Crisis in History | I 589 |
Certainty since the Seventeenth Century | I 312 | Literary Criticism | I 596 |
Chain of Being | I 325 | Cultural Development in Antiquity | I 607 |
Chance | I 335 | Culture and Civilization in Modern Times | I 613 |
Chance Images | I 340 | Cycles | I 621 |
China in Western Thought and Culture | I 353 | Cynicism | I 627 |
Christianity in History | I 373 | Death and Immortality | I 634 |
Church as an Institution | I 412 | Deism | I 646 |
Modernism in the Christian Church | I 418 | Democracy | I 652 |
The City | I 427 | Demonology | I 667 |
Civil Disobedience | I 434 | Design Argument | I 670 |
Class | I 441 | Despotism | II 1 |
Classicism in Literature | I 449 | Determinism in History | II 18 |
Classification of the Arts | I 456 | Determinism in Theology: Predestination | II 25 |
Classification of the Sciences | I 462 | Double Truth | II 31 |
Sense of the Comic | I 467 | Dualism in Philosophy and Religion | II 38 |
Conservation of Natural Resources | I 470 | Economic History | II 44 |
Conservatism | I 477 | Economic Theory of Natural Liberty | II 61 |
Constitutionalism | I 485 | Education | II 71 |
Continuity and Discontinuity in Nature and Knowledge | I 492 | Empathy | II 85 |
Cosmic Fall | I 504 | Enlightenment | II 89 |
Cosmic Images | I 513 | The Counter-Enlightenment | II 100 |
Cosmic Voyages | I 524 | EntropyII | 112 |
Cosmology from Antiquity to 1850 | I 535 | Environment | II 120 |
Cosmology since 1850 | I 554 | Environment and Culture | II 127 |
Creation in Religion | I 571 | Epicureanism and Free Will | II 134 |
Equality | II 138 |
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Equity in Law and Ethics | II 148 | Harmony or Rapture in Music | II 388 |
Eschatology | II 154 | Health and Disease | II 395 |
Problem of Evil | II 161 | Hegelian Political and Religious Ideas | II 407 |
Evolution of Literature | II 169 | Heresy in the Middle Ages | II 416 |
Evolutionism | II 174 | Heresy, Renaissance and Later | II 424 |
Existentialism | II 189 | Hermeticism | II 431 |
Experimental Science and Mechanics in the Middle Ages | II 196 | Hierarchy and Order | II 434 |
Expressionism in Literature | II 206 | Historical and Dialectical Materialism | II 450 |
Faith, Hope, and Charity | II 209 | Historicism | II 456 |
Form in the History of Aesthetics | II 216 | Historiography | II 464 |
Fortune, Fate, and Chance | II 225 | The Influence of Ideas on Ancient Greek Historiography | II 499 |
Free Will and Determinism | II 236 | Holy (The Sacred) | II 511 |
Free Will in Theology | II 242 | Humanism in Italy | II 515 |
Legal Concept of Freedom | II 248 | Iconography | II 524 |
Freedom of Speech in Antiquity | II 252 | Idea | II 542 |
Game Theory | II 263 | Ideal in Philosophy from the Renaissance to 1780 | II 549 |
General Will | II 275 | Ideology | II 552 |
Genetic Continuity | II 281 | Ideology of Soviet Communism | II 559 |
Genius from the Renaissance to 1770 | II 293 | Impiety in the Classical World | II 564 |
Genius: Individualism in Art and Artists | II 297 | Impressionism in ArtII | 567 |
Musical Genius | II 312 | Imprinting and Learning Early in Life | II 583 |
Gnosticism | II 326 | Indeterminacy in Physics | II 586 |
Idea of God from Prehistory to the Middle Ages | II 331 | Types of Individualism | II 594 |
Idea of God, 1400-1800 | II 346 | Infinity | II 604 |
Idea of God since 1800 | II 354 | Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics(Lamarckian) | II 617 |
Concept of Gothic | II 366 | Inheritance through Pangenesis | II 622 |
Happiness and Pleasure | II 374 |
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Irony | II 626 | Marxist Revisionism- From Bernstein to Modern Forms | III 161 |
Irrationalism in the History of Philosophy | II 634 | Relativity of Standards of Mathematical Rigor | III 170 |
Islamic Conception of Intellectual Life | II 638 | Mathematics in Cultural History | III 177 |
Justice | II 652 | Changing Concepts of Matter from Antiquity to Newton | III 185 |
Study of Language | II 659 | Metaphor in Philosophy | III 196 |
Ancient Greek Ideas of Law | II 673 | Metaphor in Religious Discourse | III 201 |
Ancient Roman Ideas of Law | II 685 | Metaphysical Imagination | III 208 |
Common Law | II 691 | Millenarianism | III 223 |
Concept of Law | III 1 | Mimesis | III 225 |
Due Process in Law | III 6 | Moral Sense | III 230 |
Equal Protection in Law | III 10 | Motif | III 235 |
Natural Law and Natural Rights | III 13 | Motif in Literature: The Faust Theme | III 244 |
Legal Precedent | III 27 | Literary Attitudes Toward Mountains | III 253 |
Legal Responsibility | III 33 | Music and Science | III 260 |
Liberalism | III 36 | Music as a Demonic Art | III 264 |
Linguistics | III 61 | Music as a Divine Art | III 267 |
Linguistic Theories in British Seventeenth-Century Philosophy | III 73 | Myth in Antiquity | III 272 |
Literary Paradox | III 76 | Myth in Biblical Times | III 275 |
Literature and Its Cognates | III 81 | Myth in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | III 286 |
Longevity | III 89 | Myth in English Literature: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | II 294 |
Love | III 94 | Myth in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | III 300 |
Loyalty | III 108 | Myth in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | III 307 |
Machiavellism | III 116 | Medieval and Renaissance Ideas of Nation | III 318 |
Macrocosm and Microcosm | III 126 | Nationalism | III 324 |
Man-Machine from the Greeks to the Computer | III 131 | ||
Marxism | III 146 |
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Naturalism in Art | III 339 | Positivism in the Twentieth Century (Logical Empiricism) | III 545 |
Nature | III346 | Pragmatism | III 551 |
Necessity | III 351 | Pre-Platonic Conceptions of Human Nature | III 570 |
Neo-Classicism in Art | III 362 | Primitivism | III 577 |
Neo-Platonism | III 371 | Primitivism in the Eighteenth Century | III 598 |
Newton and the Method of Analysis | III 378 | Probability: Objective Theory | III 605 |
Newtons Opticks and Eighteenth-Century Imagination | III 391 | Progress in Classical Antiquity | III 623 |
Number | III 399 | Progress in the Modern Era | III 633 |
Optics and Vision | III 407 | Property | III 650 |
Organicism | III 421 | Prophecy in Hebrew Scripture | III 657 |
Oriental Ideas in American Thought | III 427 | Prophecy in the Middle Ages | III 664 |
Ethics of Peace | III 440 | Protest Movements | III 670 |
International Peace | III 448 | Psychological Ideas in Antiquity | IV 1 |
Perennial Philosophy | III 457 | Psychological Schools in European Thought | IV 10 |
Perfectibility of Man | III 463 | Psychological Theories in American Thought | IV 16 |
Periodization in History | III 476 | Pythagorean Doctrines to 300 B.C. | IV 30 |
Periodization in Literary History | III 481 | Pythagorean Harmony of the Universe | IV 38 |
Philanthropy | III 486 | Ramism | IV 42 |
Pietism | III 493 | Rationality among the Greeks and Romans | IV 46 |
Rhetoric and Literary Theory in Platonism | III 495 | Realism in Literature | IV 51 |
Platonism in Philosophy and Poetry | III 502 | Recapitulation | IV 56 |
Platonism in the Renaissance | III 508 | Reformation | IV 60 |
Platonism since the Enlightenment | III 515 | Relativism in Ethics | IV 70 |
Poetry and Poetics from Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century | III 525 | Relativity | IV 74 |
Positivism in Europe to 1900 | III 532 | Origins of Religion | IV 92 |
Positivism in Latin America | III 539 | Ritual in Religion | IV 99 |
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Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century | IV 106 | Ethics of Stoicism | IV 319 |
Religious Enlightenment in American Thought | IV 109 | Structuralism | IV 322 |
Religious Toleration | IV 112 | Style in Literature | IV 330 |
Idea of Renaissance | IV 121 | Sublime in External Nature | IV 333 |
Renaissance Humanism | IV 129 | Symbol and Symbolism in Literature | IV 337 |
Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man | IV 136 | Symmetry and Asymmetry | IV 345 |
Renaissance Literature and Historiography | IV 147 | Taste in the History of Aesthetics from the Renaissance to 1770 | IV 353 |
Revolution | IV 152 | Technology | IV 357 |
Rhetoric alter Plato | IV 167 | Temperance (Sōphrosynē) and the Canon of the Cardinal Virtues | IV 365 |
Right and Good | IV 173 | Theodicy | IV 378 |
Romanticism in Literature | IV 187 | Theriophily | IV 384 |
Romanticism (ca. 1780-ca. 1830) | IV 198 | Time | IV 389 |
Romanticism in Political Thought | IV 205 | Time and Measurement | IV 398 |
Romanticism in Post-Kantian Philosophy | IV 208 | Totalitarianism | IV 400 |
Satire | IV 211 | Sense of the Tragic | IV 411 |
Victorian Sensibility and Sentiment | IV 217 | Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism | IV 417 |
Sin and Salvation | IV 224 | Uniformitarianism in Linguistics | IV 423 |
Skepticism in Antiquity | IV 234 | Unity of Science from Plato to Kant | IV 431 |
Skepticism in Modern Thought | IV 240 | Universal Man | IV 437 |
Social Contract | IV 251 | Utilitarianism | IV 444 |
Social Democracy in Germany and Revisionism | IV 263 | Utility and Value in Economic Thought | IV 450 |
Formal Theories of Social Welfare | V 276 | Utopia | IV 458 |
Socialism from Antiquity to Marx | IV 284 | Ut pictura poesis | IV 465 |
Space | IV 295 | Virtù in and since the Renaissance | IV 476 |
Spontaneous Generation | IV 307 | Virtuoso | IV 486 |
The State | IV 312 | Volksgeist | IV 490 |
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Vox populi | IV 496 | Witchcraft | IV 521 |
War and Militarism | IV 500 | Social Attitudes Towards Women | IV 523 |
Welfare State | IV 509 | Work | IV 535 |
Wisdom of the Fool | IV 515 | Zeitgeist | IV 530 |
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