Perle, George, 305–306, 311n12, 312n14

persona, 30–33, 73, 319

pessimism, 130–131, 134, 138, 141

philology, 114, 130, 135–136, 151n21

phlogiston, 189–190, 192, 197n13

phonemes, 31–32, 105

physics, 157, 174, 180, 184–185, 187, 193, 202, 206, 220, 225, 240n14

Picasso, Pablo, 64

Planck, Max, 175, 181, 206

Plato, 44, 46–48, 53n2–3, 54, 84, 109, 112, 115, 119–121, 139, 141, 151nn23–24, 162, 204, 213, 215, 230–231, 237–238, 257, 287n11, 317

Pliny, 63

Poetics,, 69n1, 70n6, 105, 107–108, 118, 120–122, 124n2, 124n9, 124n11, 125n24, 126n29, 126n31, 287n13, 311n10

poetry, 7, 30, 38, 54, 56, 64, 68–69, 74, 76, 81, 95–96, 102, 104, 109, 115, 118, 121, 127, 138, 146, 149

Poiesis,, 117–119

Pope John Paul II, 191, 198n15, 199

Popper, Carl, 210

popular imagination, 158, 168, 244

Poseidon, 122, 134

positivism, 239n5

positivist, 185, 221, 317

postmodern, 10, 12, 14, 17, 22n6, 53, 86, 93, 98n3, 99n14, 125n20, 219, 264, 266–267, 269–273, 275–283, 285, 286n1, 289–290, 304, 316–317

The Postmodern Condition,, 14, 22n6, 86, 93, 99n14

Poulenc, Francis, 44, 60

Praxis,, 114, 117–119

Priestley, Joseph, 190

Presley, Elvis, 31

The Problems of Modernity,, 85, 98n9

progress, 118–119, 126, 157–159, 164, 168–169, 173, 175, 178, 186, 195, 198, 207, 244, 263–264, 267–271, 275, 277, 284, 308, 315–317

Ptolemy, Claudius, 190, 211

Putnam, Hilary, 193

Pythagoras, 213, 215n10

Pythagoreans, 169, 213–215

quantum mechanics, 175–176, 181–182, 206, 238, 246, 249, 311

quark, 206

Rapprisentatione di Anima e Corpo,, 110–111

rationality, 3, 23n3, 43, 47–48, 54, 80, 82–88, 92, 114, 117, 119, 130–131, 135, 139, 142, 144–145, 157, 159, 162, 164, 168, 171, 181, 183, 201, 204–205, 207–208, 214, 224, 227, 237–238, 251, 254–257, 263, 276–278, 287, 301, 303, 305, 307, 309, 316–318, 320–321, 326

Ravel, Maurice, 188

realism, 187, 189, 191–193, 197n12, 199n16, 222, 259, 268

realists, 167–168, 187–188, 191–193, 195