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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sources on individual philosophers referred to are to be
found in the bibliography of the article on “Right and
Good.” See also V. J. McGill, The Idea of Happiness (New
York, 1967). Howard Mumford Jones, The Pursuit of Happi-
ness
(Cambridge, Mass., 1953; Ithaca, 1966), deals with
American legal and social uses of the concept of happiness.
For psychological trends, see H. M. Gardner, Ruth Clark
Metcalf, and John G. Beebe-Center, Feeling and Emotion,
A History of Theories
(New York, 1937); for political philos-
ophy, George H. Sabine, A History of Political Theory (New
York, 1937); for economics, Eric Roll, A History of Economic
Thought,
revised and enlarged ed. (New York, 1946). Recent
analytical treatments of pleasure are discussed in David L.
Perry, The Concept of Pleasure (The Hague, 1967).

For references cited and further references: David
Braybrooke, Three Tests for Democracy: Personal Rights,
Human Welfare, Collective Preference
(New York, 1968).
Erich Fromm, Man for Himself (New York, 1947), Ch. IV.
Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston, 1955). Karl
Marx, The German Ideology, is the English title given to
the work which was first printed in full in the marx-Engels
Gesamtausgabe,
12 vols. (Moscow, 1927-35), Abt. I, Bd. 5.
A relevant excerpt of Part II appears as Appendix III in
Sidney Hook, From Hegel to Marx (New York and London,
1936; reprint 1950). Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind
(London, 1949), Ch. IV; Dilemmas (Cambridge, 1956), Ch.
IV. Moritz Schlick, Problems of Ethics, trans. David Rynin
(New York, 1939), Ch. VIII. Herbert Spencer, The Principles
of Ethics,
2 vols. (New York, 1896), Vol. I, Chs. I-VIII.
G. H. von Wright, The Varieties of Goodness (London, 1963),
Chs. III-V. Martha Wolfenstein, “Fun Morality: An Analysis
of Recent American Child-Training Literature,” Journal of
Social Issues,
7, 4 (1951), 15-25, reprinted in Childhood in
Contemporary Cultures,
ed. Margaret Mead and Martha
Wolfenstein (Chicago, 1963), Part III.

ABRAHAM EDEL

[See also Cynicism; Epicureanism; Platonism; Progress;
Right and Good; Social Welfare; Stoicism; Utilitarianism;
Utopia.]

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