CHAPTER 4 The Negation of Valuation
PART 2 Determinism and Materialism
CHAPTER 5 Determinism and Its Critics
2 The Negation of Ideological Factors
7 The Autonomy of the Sciences of Human Action
1 Two Varieties of Materialism
3 The Political Implications of Materialism
CHAPTER 7 Dialectical Materialism
2 The Material Productive Forces
3 The Class Struggle
4 The Ideological Impregnation of Thought
5 The Conflict of Ideologies
6 Ideas and Interests
7 The Class Interests of the Bourgeoisie
8 The Critics of Marxism
9 Marxian Materialism and Socialism
CHAPTER 8 Philosophy of History
1 The Theme of History
2 The Theme of the Philosophy of History
3 The Difference between the Point of View of History and That of Philosophy of History
4 Philosophy of History and the Idea of God
5 Activistic Determinism and Fatalistic Determinism
PART 3 Epistemological Problems of History
CHAPTER 9 The Concept of Historical Individuality
1 The Ultimate Given of History
2 The Role of the Individual in History
3 The Chimera of the Group Mind
4 Planning History
CHAPTER 10 Historicism
1 The Meaning of Historicism
2 The Rejection of Economics
3 The Quest for Laws of Historical Change
4 Historicist Relativism
5 Dissolving History
6 Undoing History
7 Undoing Economic History
CHAPTER 11 The Challenge of Scientism
1 Positivism and Behaviorism
2 The Collectivist Dogma
3 The Concept of the Social Sciences
4 The Nature of Mass Phenomena
CHAPTER 12 Psychology and Thymology
1 Naturalistic Psychology and Thymology
2 Thymology and Praxeology
3 Thymology as a Historical Discipline
4 History and Fiction
5 Rationalization
6 Introspection
CHAPTER 13 Meaning and Use of the Study of History
1 The Why of History
2 The Historical Situation
3 History of the Remote Past
4 Falsifying History
5 History and Humanism
6 History and the Rise of Aggressive Nationalism
7 History and Judgments of Value
CHAPTER 14 The Epistemological Features of History
1 Prediction in the Natural Sciences
2 History and Prediction
3 The Specific Understanding of History
4 Thymological Experience
5 Real Types and Ideal Types
PART 4 The Course of History
CHAPTER 15 Philosophical Interpretations of History
1 Philosophies of History and Philosophical Interpretations of History
2 Environmentalism
3 The Egalitarians’ Interpretation of History
4 The Racial Interpretation of History
5 The Secularism of Western Civilization
6 The Rejection of Capitalism by Antisecularism
CHAPTER 16 Present-Day Trends and the Future
1 The Reversal of the Trend toward Freedom
2 The Rise of the Ideology of Equality in Wealth and Income
3 The Chimera of a Perfect State of Mankind
4 The Alleged Unbroken Trend toward Progress