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Preface to the Electronic Edition

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

VI.

THE EARLY LATIN ALCHEMY OF THE WEST

RENAISSANCE ALCHEMY AND THE “NEW SCIENCE”

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.

ALIENATION IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ALIENATION IN HEGELAND MARX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.

ALLEGORY INLITERARY HISTORY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.

AMBIGUITY ASAESTHETIC PRINCIPLE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.

ANALOGY INEARLY GREEK THOUGHT

III

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.

ANALOGY IN PATRISTICAND MEDIEVAL THOUGHT

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ANALOGY OF THEBODY POLITIC

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ANARCHISM

BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.

ANCIENTS AND MODERNS INTHE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VII.

ANTHROPOMORPHISMIN SCIENCE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.

ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.

APPEARANCE AND REALITY

III.

III. THE THEORY LAPSES

IV. KANT

V. SCHILLER

VI. RECENT AND CURRENT VIEWS

III.

II.

ATOMISM: ANTIQUITY TO THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ATOMISM IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

VII.

VI.

III. THE ASSEMBLY OF THE CONSTITUENT IDEAS

IV. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

1. The Eighteenth-Century Theory of International Politics.

2. The Operation of the Balance.

V. SINCE 1815

BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.

BAROQUE IN LITERATURE

[subsection]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.

THEORIES OF BEAUTY TOTHE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

[subsection]

I. THE FUNDAMENTAL POSITIONS

1. The Objective Existence of Beauty.

2. The Objective Conception of Beauty in Artistic Representation.

3. Other Instances of the Objective Conception of Beauty.

4. The Subjective Approach to Beauty.

II. MODES OF PERCEPTION AND RESPONSE

1. Metaphysical Foundation.

2. Immediate Perception.

3. The Process of Knowledge.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.

THEORIES OF BEAUTY SINCETHE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

[subsection]

I. BEAUTY IN DECLINE

II. CONCEPTS OF BEAUTY

III. STUDIES OF BEAUTY

II.

I. THE INTELLECTUAL ANCESTRY OF BEHAVIORISM

II. THE IMMEDIATE ORIGINS OF WATSON'S BEHAVIORISM

III. THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF BEHAVIORISM

IV. SUMMARY AND EVALUATION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTIONSIN ANTIQUITY

BIOLOGICAL HOMOLOGIESAND ANALOGIES

DETERMINISTIC AND STOCHASTIC MODELS

VI.

VII.

III.

VII.

VII.

I. SUBSTANTIVE THEORIES

II. ANALYTICAL APPROACHES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VII.

CAUSATION INISLAMIC THOUGHT

VI.

CAUSATION IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

[subsection]

I. PRE-NEWTONIAN PHILOSOPHERS IN ENGLAND

II. DESCARTES AND HIS SUCCESSORS

III. NEWTON AND LEIBNIZ

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.

CAUSATION IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY, FINAL CAUSES

1. THE CRITICS OF FINAL CAUSES

II. DEFENDERS OF FINAL CAUSES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.

CERTAINTY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHT

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.

CERTAINTY SINCE THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

VI.

VII.

III.

IV.

CHINA IN WESTERN THOUGHTAND CULTURE

VI.

CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY

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I. THE EARLY CHURCH

II. THE MIDDLE AGES

III. THE REFORMATION AND COUNTER-REFORMATION

IV. THE MODERN WORLD

V. THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.

CHURCH AS ANINSTITUTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.

MODERNISM IN THECHRISTIAN CHURCH

II. MEDIEVAL “ORGANIC” TOWN

III. RENAISSANCE IDEAS OF THE CITY

IV. MODERN CITY PLANNING

III.

CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.

CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS

VII.

CLASSIFICATION OFTHE SCIENCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.

SENSE OF THE COMIC

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONSERVATION OFNATURAL RESOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONSERVATISM

I. INTRODUCTION

II. NONIDEOLOGICAL CONSERVATISM

III. CONSERVATISM AS A POLITICAL IDEA AND IDEOLOGY

IV. VARIOUS TYPES OF CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT

VII.

CONTINUITY ANDDISCONTINUITY IN NATURE AND KNOWLEDGE

I. INTRODUCTION

II. PHYSICAL SCIENCE

III. ATOMISM AND DISCONTINUITY IN THEOLOGY

IV. MATHEMATICS

V. GEOLOGY AND BIOLOGY

VI.

COSMOLOGY FROMANTIQUITY TO 1850

BIBLIOGRAPHY

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850

I. INTRODUCTION

II. DISCREPANCIES IN THE NEWTONIAN UNIVERSE

III. CONTRADICTIONS IN THE NEWTONIAN COSMOLOGY

IV. COSMOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY

V. THE EINSTEIN STATIC UNIVERSE

VI. THE DE SITTER EMPTY EXPANDING UNIVERSE

VII. THE NONSTATIC MODELS OF A NONEMPTY UNIVERSE

VIII. MODEL UNIVERSES WITH THE COSMICAL CONSTANT EQUAL TO ZERO

IX. MODELS OF THE UNIVERSE WITH THE COSMICAL CONSTANT DIFFERENT FROM ZERO

X. THE STEADY-STATE THEORY AND OTHER COSMOLOGIES

VI.

1. THE RATIONALE OF CREATIO EX NIHILO

II. PERSISTENT CREATIONIST ISSUES

III.

IV.

III.

IV.

CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTIN ANTIQUITY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

IV.

CULTURE AND CIVILIZATIONIN MODERN TIMES

[subsection]

SPECULATIONS ON CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION

IV.

II. CYCLES IN HUMAN AFFAIRS

III. TWENTIETH-CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS

VI.

VI.

DEATH AND IMMORTALITY

DEATH

IMMORTALITY

[subsection]

I. IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

VI.

III.

VI.

I. ANCIENT ORIGINS OF THE ARGUMENT

II. THE MEDIEVAL “SYNTHESIS”

III. MODERN DEVELOPMENTS OF THE ARGUMENT

IV. THE ARGUMENT SINCE DARWIN

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Isaiah Berlin
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Salomon Bochner
Felix Gilbert
Frank E. Manuel
Ernest Nagel
René Wellek

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CONSULTING EDITORS

Harold Cherniss
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