Theory and History. Людвиг фон Мизес

10 The Historical Significance of the Quest for Absolute Values

CHAPTER 4 The Negation of Valuation

PART 2 Determinism and Materialism

CHAPTER 5 Determinism and Its Critics

1 Determinism

2 The Negation of Ideological Factors

3 The Free-Will Controversy

4 Foreordination and Fatalism

5 Determinism and Penology

6 Determinism and Statistics

7 The Autonomy of the Sciences of Human Action

CHAPTER 6 Materialism

1 Two Varieties of Materialism

2 The Secretion Analogy

3 The Political Implications of Materialism

       CHAPTER 7 Dialectical Materialism

       1 Dialectics and Marxism

       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