consistency and credibility, 613
Consolations of Philosophy ( Boethius), 370
Constantine I (the Great --Flavius Valerius Constantinus), Roman
Emperor ( 272-337), 274 , 275 , 277 , 284 , 331 -332, 333 , 337 , 358 ;
conversion of, 281 , 303 , 329 , 330 , 332. See also Donation of
Constantine
Constance, Council of, 483 , 486
Constance of Sicily, wife of Emperor Henry VI, 442 -443
Constantinople, 274 , 341 , 390 , 392 ; and Arianism, 333 ; and Christian
philosophy, 478 ; conquered by Turks, 275 , 420 , 486 , 496 ; and
Crusades, 442 , 434 , 496 ; and Donation of Constantine, 392 ; and fall of
Rome, 343 ; and Greek classics, 440 ; and Gregory the Great, 381 , 382 ,
385 ; and Mohammedans, 419 ; and Nestorianism, 367 , 368 , 369 ; and
papacy, 388 , 478 ; patriarchs of, 388 , 390 , 395 , 396
Constantius II (Flavius Julius), Roman Emperor ( 317-361), 337
constitution(s), 107 , 108 , 508 , 509 ; U.S., 599 , 605 , 631 , 633 , 640 ;
British, 605 , 618 , 637 , 638 ; French, 605 , 639 -640; of Holy Roman
Empire, 389 ; Roman, 271 , 821 ; of Sparta, 96 -98, 104
constitutional government, 441 "Consultation on a matrimonial cause"
( Occam), 471
contemplation, 33 , 34 , 169 , 171 , 181 , 182 , 294 , 758 , 810 , 812
contempt, 39 , 41
Continent, 401 , 558 , 746 , 752
Continental philosophy, 546 , 564 , 609 , 643
continuity, 829 , 833
Contra Celsum. See Against Celsus
contradiction, law of, 592 , 706
control, 827 , 828
convention, and romanticism, 676 , 683 -684
co-operation, 494 , 684
co-ordinate geometry, 36 , 536 , 560 -561
Copernicus, Nikolaus, Polish astronomer ( 14731543), 207 , 475 , 486 ,
492 , 525 , 526 -529, 544 , 697 ; and Aristarchus of Samos, 131 , 216 ;
disposes of man's cosmic importance, 788 ; and Galileo, 533 , 534 ; and
Kant, 707 ; and Kepler, 529 , 530 ; and Newton, 70 , 535 , 539
Copernican hypothesis, 217 , 259 , 527 ; in antiquity, 214 -216, 222 ; and
human pride, 538