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DICTIONARY
OF THE HISTORY
OF IDEAS


DICTIONARY
OF THE HISTORY
OF IDEAS
Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas

PHILIP P. WIENER
EDITOR IN CHIEF
VOLUME II
Despotism
TO
Law, Common

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS ·
NEW YORK


Copyright © 1968, 1973 Charles Scribner's Sons
The Publishers are grateful for permission to quote from
previously published works in the following articles:
“Agnosticism”
from Language, Truth and Logic, by A. J. Ayer, copyright 1935,
by permission of Victor Gollancz Ltd.
“Ambiguity as Aesthetic Principle”
from Virgil, Aeneid, trans. H. R. Fairclough, Loeb Classical
Library, by permission of Harvard University Press
from Camoens: The Lusiads, trans. W. C. Atkinson, copyright
1952, by permission of Penguin Books, Ltd.
from The Odes of Pindar, trans. Richmond Lattimore, copyright
1947 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
from Richard of Saint Victor, ed. Clare Kirchberger, © 1957,
by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers
“Catharsis”
from The Oxford Translation of Aristotle, trans. W. D. Ross,
copyright 1925, by permission of The Clarendon Press, Oxford
“Cosmology”
from Early Science in Oxford, by R. T. Gunther, copyright
1931, by permission of The Clarendon Press, Oxford
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