Ontology: a study of the ultimate nature of things.
Pantheism: the doctrine that God is immanent in all things.
Pluralism: the doctrine that the world is not a unit in law and structure, but the scene of contrary forces and processes.
Polytheism: the worship of many gods.
Positivism: the restriction of philosophical inquiry to problems open to scientific methods.
Pragmatism: the doctrine that truth is the practical efficacy of an idea.
Prolegomena: introductory studies.
Realism: in epistemology, the doctrine that the external world exists independently of perception, and substantially as perceived by us; in logic, the doctrine that universal ideas have objective realities corresponding to them.
Scholasticism: the philosophy of the medieval theologians; in general, the divorce of speculation from observation and practice.
Sociology: the study of social institutions and processes.
Subjective: as existing in thought; in Spinoza, as the object of thought.
Substance: in Spinoza, the basic and eternal reality, the structure and law of the world.
Teleology: the theory or study of development as caused by the purposes which things serve.
Theist: a believer in a personal God.
Transcendental: beyond the realm and reach of the senses.
Tropism: an invariable response.
Utilitarianism: the doctrine that all actions are to be judged in terms of their utility in promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Vitalism: the doctrine that life is the basic reality, of which everything else is a form of manifestation.
Voluntarism: the doctrine that will is the basic factor, both in the universe and in human conduct.
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Index
Abelard, 119
Abrahams, I., 198
Absolute, 384f., 667
Addison, 267
Adeimantus, 20
Adler, A., 551
Æschylus, 531f.
Alchemy, 157
Alcibiades, 6f.
Alexander, 63f., 112, 120f., 163, 448
Alexander II, 519
Alexandria, 119
Alfieri, 438, 562
Altruism, 509f.
America, 635f., 690f.
Amnesia, 599
Amsterdam, 199
Amyntas, 63
Anarchism, 565
Anaxagoras, 51, 81, 194
Anaximander, 80
Anaximenes, 81
Ancestor-worship, 493f.
Antinomies, 355f.
Antipater, 121
Antisthenes, 6, 98, 125
Antonius, M. Pius, 151, 656
Anytus, 11f.
Apatheia, 125f.
Aphasia, 599
Apollo, 529f.
Aquinas, T., 119f., 133, 609
Aristippus, 6, 125
Aristocracy, 4, 26, 42, 57, 105f., 558f., 657f.
Aristophanes, 11, 27
Aristotle, 3, 39, 55, 63f., 133f., 149, 163f., 177, 192, 238, 242, 411, 434, 531, 638, 642
Arnold, M., 82
Art, 94f., 438f., 615f.
Artzibashev, 581
Ascham, R., 184
Astronomy, 70, 128
Ataraxia, 126f.
Atheism, 146, 311f.
Athenæus, 69
Athens, 2f., 65f., 118
Aurelius, M., 127f., 151
Averroës, 191
Babbitt, I., 451
Bacon, F., 84, 120, 123f., 268, 301f., 331, 379, 460, 513, 607, 678, 682
Bacon, R., 120, 134, 177
Bain, A., 471
Balzac, 580
Barker, E., 18
Bateson, W., 486
Bauer, B., 387
Bax, B., 255
Bayle, 302
Bayreuth, 535
Beard, C., 132
Beauty, 224, 362, 456, 616f.
Beethoven, 377f., 382, 388f., 533, 560, 571