The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Politically Incorrect Guides) (60 page)

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individualism. education and; religion and; Renaissance and; State and; twentieth century and
 
Industrial Revolution
 
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
(Goldberg)
 
Inferno
(Dante)
 
Inherit the Wind
 
Interior Castle
(Teresa of Avila)
 
In the Heat of the Night
 
Isaac
 
Isaiah
 
Islam
 
Isolde
 
Israel. art and; democracy and; God, revelation of and; God of Abraham and; history, view of and; humility and; importance of; Jesus and; nature and; salvation and; women in
 
The Italian Renaissance
(Plumb)
 
It’s a Wonderful Life
 
Iulus
 
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (Wordsworth)
 
J
 
Jacob
 
James I, King
 
James II, King
 
James VI, King
 
Jefferson, Thomas
 
Jerome, Saint
 
Jerusalem
 
Jerusalem Delivered
(Tasso)
 
Jesus; baptism of; crucifixion of; heresies and; as homeless; Incarnation of; Israel and; law and; light and; love and; miracles of; salvation and; slavery and; Western civilization and
 
Jews.
See
Israel
 
Joan of Arc
 
John, Saint
 
John of Leyden
 
John of the Cross, Saint
 
John Paul II, Pope
 
Johnson, Samuel
 
Joplin, Scott
 
Julian the Apostate
 
Julius Caesar
 
Julius II, Pope
 
justice; ancient Greece and; of God; suffrage and
 
Justinian
 
Justin Martyr, Saint
 
Juvenal
 
K
 
Kant, Immanuel
 
Kazan, Elia
 
Keats, John
 
Kennedy, Anthony
 
Kepler, Johannes
 
Kerry, John
 
Kierkegard, Soren
 
King Lear
(Shakespeare)
 
Kinsey, Alfred
 
Kirk, Russell
 
Kitto, H. D. F.
 
Klee, Paul
 
Koran
 
L
 
labor
 
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (Yeats)
 
Lambeth Conference (1930)
 
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de
 
Lancelot
 
Laplace, Pierre-Simon
 
Last Judgment
(Michelangelo)
 
The Last of the Mohicans
(Cooper)
 
Last Supper
(Da Vinci)
 
La Vite Nuova
(Dante)
 
law. ancient Greece and; eternal; Jesus and; natural
 
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(Scott)
 
Leaves of Grass
(Whitman)
 
Le Corbusier
 
Left
 
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
 
Lenin, Vladimir
 
Leonidas
 
Leo XIII, Pope
 
Leviathan.
See also
State
 
Leviathan
(Hobbes)
 
Lewis. S.
 
Libertas Praestantissimum
(Leo XIII)
 
Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
(Jefferson)
 
Life
magazine
 
Life of Pericles
(Plutarch)
 
Lister, Joseph
 
literature. medieval; nineteenth-century; Renaissance; twentieth-century
 
Lives of the Painters
(Vasari)
 
Livy
 
Locke, John
 
Logan’s Run
 
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
 
Louis IX, Saint
 
Louis XIV, King
 
love.
agape
and; ancient Greece and; Augustine, Saint and; charity and; Christianity and;
eros
and; free; God and; Jesus and; lust and; Middle Ages and; paganism and; Plato and; poetry of; Rome and
 
Lucius Junius Brutus
 
Lucretius
 
Luke, Saint
 
The Lusiads
(Camoens)
 
Luther, Martin
 
M
 
Macbeth
(Shakespeare)
 
Machiavelli, Niccolò
 
McCarthy, Joseph
 
McKinley, William
 
Madison, James
 
Madonna
 
man. causes of; dignity of; end of; fall of; glory of; as image of God; as machine; nature of; perfection of; Renaissance and glory of; as social construction; State and end of; will of
 
Manasseh
 
Mandeville, Bernard
 
A Man for All Seasons
 
Manicheans
 
Mantegna, Andrea
 
manual labor
 
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
 
Mao Tse-tung
 
Marc Antony
 
Marcellinus
 
Marcus Aurelius
 
Marcuse, Herbert
 
Marius
 
Marlowe, Christopher
 
marriage
 
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(Blake)
 
martyrdom
 
Marx, Karl
 
Marxism
 
Mary Magdalene
(Caravaggio)
 
materialism; ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; Plato and
 
mathematics
 
Matthew, Saint
 
Mauriac, Francois
 
Mead, Margaret
 
Measure for Measure
(Shakespeare)
 
media
 
medicine.
See
science
 
Medieval and Early Modern Science
(Crombie)
 
Melville, Herman
 
Memorabilia
(Xenophon)
 
The Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare)
 
“The Merchant’s Tale” (Chaucer)
 
mercy
 
metaphysics
 
Metaphysics
(Aristotle)
 
Methodism
 
Michelangelo
 
Middle Ages. Aquinas, Thomas, Saint and; Aristotle and; art and; Christianity in; culture and; as dark; drama and; education and; global warming and; Gothic cathedrals and; Islam and; literature of; love and; metaphysics and; myths about; nature and; paganism and; reason and; Renaissance and; salvation and; science and; witches and; women and
 
Mill, John Stuart
 
“The Miller’s Tale” (Chaucer)
 
Milton, John
 
Miro, Joan
 
Moby-Dick
(Melville)
 
“Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau” (Blake)
 
modernity. Renaissance and; tradition and
 
Mohammed
 
Montaigne, Michel de
 
morality. Aristotle and; nineteenth century and; Western civilization and
 
moral relativism; ancient Greece and; democracy and
 
More, Henry
 
More, Paul Elmer
 
More, Thomas
 
Morris, William
 
Mosee
 
Moses
 
Mother Earth
 
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
 
Mucius
 
Muggeridge, Malcolm
 
multiculturalism
 
Murray, Gilbert
 
music
 
Mussolini, Benito
 
“My Last Duchess” (Browning)
 
mysticism
 
N
 
Napoleon
 
natural law. ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; Jesus and; Locke, John and; marriage and; piety and
 
natural science.
See
science
 
nature. ancient Greece and; Christianity and; cult of the child and; God and; Middle Ages and; paganism and; Romantic worship of
 
Nazism, Nazis
 
Nebuchadnezzar
 
Nero
 
The New Life
(Dante)
 
Newman, John Henry
 
News from Nowhere
(Morris)
 
Newton, Isaac
 
New York Times
 
Nicholas Nickleby
(Dickens)
 
Nicomachean Ethics
(Aristotle)
 
Nietzsche, Friedrich
 
1984
(Orwell)
 
nineteenth century. Arnold, Matthew and; art and; cult of the child and; evil and; family and; feminism and; man, perfection of and; man, worship of and; morality and; nature, worship of and; Nietzsche, Friedrich and; poetry of; progress and; science and; United States in; women and.
See also
Romanticism, Romantics
 
nominalism
 
O
 
Ockham, William of
 
O’Connor, Flannery
 
Ode. Intimations of Immortality
(Wordsworth)
 
Ode to a Nightingale
(Keats)
 
Odysseus

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