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Descartes, Rene, 78-81
code of maxims, 81
logic, 78-79
methodical doubt, 79
writings, 78
Dewey, John, 54
dialectic, 57, 179, 183
dialectical materialism, 183-184, 244
dictatorship, 132
of the proletariat, 185,244
differential rent, theory of, 207
diminishing marginal utility, law of,
200
diminishing returns, law of, 200-207
disjunctive syllogism, 30
dispersion of powers, 133-134
divine law, 75-76, 153-154
divine origin theory of the state, 117
division of labor, 204-205
dualism, 114, 147
duty, Kant’s concept of, 91

economic determinism, concept of, 184
economic goals, 197-198
economic interventionism, 228
economic laws, five great, 200-201
economic systems, 198-199
economic theories, 195-244
efficient cause, 62
egalitarianism, 128-130
elites, theory of, 188
elitism, 128-130
Emile, 170
emotive language, 36
Empiricism, 165
Engels, Friedrich, 183
entelechy, 61
Enthymeme, 28
Epictetus, 68-71, 81
lectures, 69


Epicurean philosophy, 65, 71
Epicurus, 65-68
on friendship, 68
Lucretius’ writings about, 65
moral philosophy, 66-68
equalization of distribution of wealth,
243
equivocation, 33, 36
eternal law, 75, 153
ethical hedonism, 85
ethical inquiry, 48
ethics, 47-107
Ethnocentrism, 10-11
eudaemonia, 63, 73, 77
existence of God, 48
Existential theory of truth, 22
Existentialism, 54, 103, 104
atheistic, 104
theistic, 104

Fabian Essays, 240, 241
Fabian Society, 239
fallacy, 27, 32-43
linguistic, 32
logical, 32
nonlinguistic, 32
sophism, 32
fallacy of the consequent, 39,43
false cause, 38-39, 43
Fascism, 187-191
“Father of Modern Capitalism,” 202
father of modem conservatism, 174
father of modem philosophy, 81
father of political science, 156
federal organization of government, 134
Federal Reserve Board, 233
final cause, 62
force theory of the state, 116
“form” (Plato’s term), 57
formal cause, 62
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