The Great Ideas
An Amateur's Progress
Here is a list of the great ideas that are referenced in the two volumes of The Syntopicon of the Great Books of the Western World, published by Encyclopedia Britannica. If a selection is highlighted, it means that this amateur has had enough time to write his comments unto this new web page:
- Angel
- Animal
- Aristocracy
- Art
- Astronomy
- Beauty
- Being
- Cause
- Chance
- Change
- Citizen
- Constitution
- Courage
- Custom and Convention
- Definition
- Democracy
- Desire
- Dialectic
- Duty
- Education
- Element
- Emotion
- Eternity
- Evolution
- Experience
- Family
- Fate
- Form
- God
- Good and Evil
- Government
- Habit
- Happiness
- History
- Honor
- Hypothesis
- Idea
- Immortality
- Induction
- Infinity
- Judgment
- Justice
- Knowledge
- Labor
- Language
- Law
- Liberty
- Life and Death
- Logic
- Love
- Man
- Mathematics
- Matter
- Mechanics
- Medicine
- Memory and Imagination
- Metaphysics
- Mind
- Monarchy
- Nature
- Necessity and Contingency
- Oligarchy
- One and Many
- Opinion
- Opposition
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Pleasure and Pain
- Poetry
- Principle
- Progress
- Prophecy
- Prudence
- Punishment
- Quality
- Quantity
- Reasoning
- Relation
- Religion
- Revolution
- Rhetoric
- Same and Other
- Science
- Sense
- Sign and Symbol
- Sin
- Slavery
- Soul
- Space
- State
- Temperance
- Theology
- Time
- Truth
- Tyranny
- Universal and Particular
- Virtue and Vice
- War and Peace
- Wealth
- Will
- Wisdom
- World
My name is Herman, and my e-mail address is: kfonteno@flash.net.
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