Index

Akhenaton 13, 17

Alcibiades 35, 211

Alexander The Great 12, 26, 27, 40, 41, 43, 116, 119, 128, 130, 212

Alexandria 41-43, 205

Anabaptists 143

Anaxagoras 27, 33, 34

Archimedes 42, 46, 65

Aristarchus 43

Aristotle 26, 29, 31, 36, 39, 40, 44, 46, 67, 87, 105, 107, 156-158, 160, 163, 165, 168, 213

arms race 11, 248

Aryans 12

astronomy 29, 30, 42, 43, 67, 107, 152, 159, 162164

Athens 27, 28, 30, 33-35, 37, 38, 44-46, 50, 63

attitudes 2, 25, 41, 51, 61, 88, 102, 127, 135

Augustus (Octavian) 56, 64, 65, 68

Aurelius, Marcus 56, 57, 68

Babylon 14-17, 30, 40, 53

Bacon, Francis 157, 158

Bacon, Roger 88, 94

Bay of Pigs 4

Berkeley, George 181, 182

bias 3, 8, 15, 54, 189, 216, 237

Bible 26, 101, 111, 120, 121, 126, 132-135, 140, 144, 145, 147, 148, 154, 163, 164, 214

birds 6-8

birth control 8, 190(fn), 243, 245, 250

Bismarck, Otto von 220, 223, 224

Brahe, Tycho 160

Buddhism 19

bureaucracy 5, 21, 56, 58, 63, 222

businessmen 2, 51, 90, 135-137, 234

Calvin, John 126, 132, 135-138, 144, 145, 159

capitalism 2, 82, 126, 135-137, 144146, 158, 173, 200, 215, 217, 233, 234

Carthage 51-53, 64

Categorizing 2

Cato 52

Challenger 246-248

Charlemagne 80, 81

Charles V 116, 117, 121, 138, 142, 170

Cheops 17

Chernobyl 248, 249

chimpanzees 8

China 14, 20, 21, 53, 109-111, 121, 204

chivalry 80, 102, 185

Christ, Jesus 2, 21, 59-62, 77, 81, 82, 84-86, 91, 92, 94-96, 102, 112, 113, 126, 127, 145, 213, 214

Christianity 19, 20, 43, 59-63, 66, 69, 76-81, 83-87, 89, 91, 92, 102, 104, 105, 109-111, 115, 119, 126, 132, 133, 135, 138, 145, 146, 148, 170, 178, 179, 196, 200, 213

city-states 12, 13, 25, 27, 28, 43, 45, 46, 113, 114, 117, 118

civil rights 194, 242, 245

cognitive dissonance 4, 140

cohesion 3, 9

Columbus 106, 109

competition 2, 3, 9, 113, 215, 233

conflict 2, 9, 12, 55, 76, 82, 88, 90, 91, 95, 102, 103, 109, 118, 119, 171, 211, 217, 221

Confucius 21

Constantine 62, 69, 81

control 6, 8, 11, 67, 82, 83, 88, 93, 113, 116, 127, 135, 138, 143, 144, 186, 191, 193, 204, 215, 221, 225, 229, 233-235, 243, 245, 249, 250

cooperation 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 186, 215

Copernicus 46, 107, 159-161, 163, 167

Council of Trent 139, 140

Counter-Reformation 126, 132, 138, 140, 141, 162

crusaders 2, 44, 84, 85, 91, 220

Crusades 83-87, 128

Darwinism 208, 214, 215

deduction 28, 157, 211

democracy 20, 25, 27, 28, 37, 89, 143, 144, 173, 188, 194, 200, 210, 211, 215, 216, 222

Descartes, Rene 140, 154-156, 213

Diocletian 50

discrimination 244, 245

Egypt 13, 16-18, 30, 40, 59, 102, 121, 199

England 28, 66, 89, 95, 109, 117, 130, 137, 141, 143, 144, 156, 164, 169-173, 191, 192, 193, 199, 205, 216, 220, 222, 231, 232, 236, 237

Epicureanism 25

Erasmus 105, 106, 111, 131, 147

Euclid 42

evolution 6, 8, 9, 39, 45, 213-215, 221, 222

failures 2, 80, 138, 232, 242

fantasy 6, 38, 63, 79, 93, 224, 247

Galen 67, 107, 108, 165-168

Galileo 161-163, 168, 173

geometry 25, 29, 42, 160

Germany 27, 59, 85, 143, 170, 173, 219, 223, 224, 230-232, 236-238

Gibbon 140, 196

Greece 12, 25-29, 31, 35, 36, 39,40, 44, 45, 65, 71, 102

Gregory the Great 76, 85

Gregory VII (Hildebrand) 82, 83

Hammurabi 14-16

Hapsburgs 116, 170

Harvey, William 167, 168

Hegel, Georg 121, 188, 211-213, 217, 218

Henry VIII 141-143

heresy 3, 27, 86, 94, 95, 131, 138- 142, 152

Herodotus 26, 27, 40, 45

Hindus 18-20

Hitler 120, 224, 236-238

Holy Roman Empire 116, 126, 141, 172

humanism 35, 39, 100, 102

humanists 42, 100, 104-107, 131

Hume, David 140, 181-184

ideology 1, 4, 10, 63, 76-79, 86, 95, 96, 102, 179

illusions 3, 120, 190, 210, 231

image 1, 4, 44, 79, 81, 82, 103, 143, 171, 172, 199, 224, 232, 241, 247

imagination 6, 8, 39, 53, 64, 67, 88

Index of Prohibited Books 139, 140

induction 28, 130, 157, 182

information 1, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 21, 43, 54, 67, 103, 109, 112, 113, 119, 140, 183, 208, 226

Innocent III 83, 91, 95, 133

insects 6, 7, 168

integration 242, 244, 245

Ionia 29-31, 34, 46

Japanese 238, 239

Jefferson, Thomas 193, 194

Jews 59-61, 85, 137, 139, 213

judgments 4, 8, 88, 105

Kepler, Johannes 160163

Ku Klux Klan 232, 234

language 2, 3, 8, 10, 18, 27, 87

learning 1, 5-7, 9, 10, 29, 31, 34, 36, 44, 63, 71, 77, 78, 88, 94, 96, 100, 102, 104, 105, 108, 147, 162, 163, 165, 168, 169, 174, 189, 210, 212, 214, 221, 223, 224, 242, 243

Leo X 115, 128, 132, 159

Leonardo 103, 104, 107-109, 213

Linnaeus, Carolus 180, 181

Locke, John 140, 154, 156, 157, 173, 181, 184, 188

long-term 5, 18, 50, 58, 66, 80, 87, 93, 129, 140, 199, 218

Luther, Martin 12, 115, 126-128, 130, 132-136, 138, 139, 142, 144, 145, 147, 159, 165,

Macedonian 26, 40, 41, 122

Machiavelli, Nicolo 112, 113, 119- 122, 128, 142, 210

Malpighi, Marcello 168, 169

Marx, Karl 212, 216- 218, 236

Mesopotamia 12, 13

Michelangelo 103, 104, 128

mindguards 4, 92

misinterpreted 4, 5

misperceptions 6

morality 4, 21, 30, 32, 35, 37, 52, 53, 57, 76, 77, 81, 83, 90, 94, 100, 103, 119, 120, 122, 130, 136, 144, 174, 185-188, 200, 213, 214, 218, 241

More, Sir Thomas 105, 106, 122, 130

Napoleon Bonaparte 22, 178, 197-199, 204, 210, 211, 218, 219 Charles Louis (Napoleon) Bonaparte 219, 220, 224

nationalism 13, 89, 115, 116, 121, 126, 141-145, 169, 209, 212, 217, 219-221, 223, 224, 240

Nazis 236, 238

neurotic paradox 1, 5, 58, 83, 129, 186, 235, 236, 245

Newton, Sir Isaac 9, 154, 157, 159, 163-165, 178, 180, 190

Nietzsche, Friedrich 209-211

norms 1, 3, 13

objectivity 2

Paracelsus 165, 166

Parmenides 31, 33, 155

patesi 12, 13

Peace of Augsburg 143

Peloponnesian War 28, 35, 37

perception 2, 7, 21, 28, 38, 50, 54, 64, 157, 181, 182

Pericles 27, 34

philosophes 179, 186

pigeons 8

Plato 26, 28, 29, 31, 33-39, 42, 43, 45, 57, 63, 87, 105-107, 167, 216

polis 25, 28

positive feedback 1, 5, 9, 28, 56, 65, 138, 153, 221, 222, 240

Ptolemaic system 30, 43, 161

Ptolemy (the astronomer) 107

Ptolemy I 42

Punic Wars 51, 52

Puritans 137, 143

Pythagoras 29, 31-34, 43, 45, 46, 155

Pythagoreans 31, 32

rationalism 33, 45, 153, 178, 181, 184, 186, 189, 208, 209, 213, 223

reference group 3

rights 51, 89, 112, 117, 118, 146, 171, 173, 181, 188, 193, 194, 197, 200, 219, 226, 242, 245, 250

Robespierre, Maximilien 197, 198

romanticism 184, 186, 189, 208-210

romantics 179, 185, 189, 209

Rousseau, Jean Jacques 20, 185-188, 211

Royal Society 189, 190

Russia 27, 169, 170, 199, 218, 224, 236-238, 248

Savonarola, Girolamo 106, 130, 131

schema 1, 4-6, 10, 19, 21, 28, 38, 40, 43, 46, 59, 75-77, 87, 89, 92, 96, 100, 102, 108, 120, 129, 132, 133, 135, 137, 141, 144, 146, 158, 167, 178, 183, 187, 204, 212, 217, 218, 225, 233, 234, 238, 240-242

Scholastics 86-90, 93, 94, 105, 158, 160, 182

Schopenhauer, Arthur 209-211

self-confidence 5, 246

self-deception 5, 8

self-image 1, 103

Semites 12

short-term 5, 7, 18, 87, 100, 117, 146, 195, 234

Skinner, B. F. 8

slavery 13, 26, 29, 44, 45, 57, 61, 62, 65, 89, 171, 187, 218, 225

socialism 208, 217, 218, 234

socialization 3, 9

Socrates 31, 35-37, 39, 46

Spain 89, 109, 110, 114, 116, 139, 171, 199, 218

Sparta 27, 28, 35, 37, 38, 44

St. Augustine 63, 132, 135

St. Bernard 86

St. Dominic 89, 91

St. Francis of Assisi 93-95

St. Ignatius of Loyola 139

St. Paul 59, 61, 213

St. Thomas Aquinas 87, 89, 90

Stalin 237

steamboat 205

sStoicism 25, 57

Sumerians 12, 13, 17

Supreme Court 234, 245

Thales 31

Titanic 229, 230, 248, 249

Turks 18, 19, 84, 109, 115, 142

Urukagina 12, 13

Vesalius 107, 166

Vietnam 239, 240

virtue 27, 35-37, 43, 51, 53, 54, 75, 79, 91, 94, 104, 119, 167, 186, 187, 196, 199, 210, 214, 226, 242

Voltaire 81, 187, 195

warnings 4, 236-239, 241

Watergate 112, 239, 241

William of Occam 88, 89, 94

witch hunts 153, 173

World War I 4, 230

World War II 18, 235

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