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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

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

                

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

   

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

       

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

                         

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

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

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

                            

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

                           

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

                          

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

                          

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

                          

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

    

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