The Active Life: Miller's Metaphysics of Democracy

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A b b r e v i a t i o n s Abbreviations will be used when citing the writings of John William Miller. PUBLISHED BOOKS DP In Defense of the Psychological. New York: Norton, 1983. DT The Definition of the Thing with Some Notes on Language. New York: Norton, 1980. MS The Midworld of Symbols and Functioning Objects. New York: Norton, 1982. PC The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays. New York: Norton, 1978. PH The Philosophy of History with Reflections and Aphorisms. New York: Norton, 1982. PUBLISHED ESSAYS AH “Afterword: The Ahistoric and the Historic.” In José Ortega y Gasset’s History as a System (Trans. Helene Weyl), 237–69. New York: Norton, 1961. CRW “On Choosing Right and Wrong.” Idealistic Studies 21 (1992): 74–78. FI “For Idealism.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 1 (1987): 260–69. TO “The Owl.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 24 (1988): 399–407. UNPUBLISHED ESSAYS CB “Communication in Beauty” (1933). Miller Papers, Box 9: Folder 10. EC “Ethics and Cosmology” (1955). Miller Papers, Box 52: Folder 12. EPE “Economics, Politics, and Ethics” (1949). Miller Papers, Box 3: Folder 6. IH “Sources of Interest in the Idea of History” (undated). Miller Papers, Box 7: Folder 11. MM “Moral Man” (undated). Miller Papers, Box 6: Folder 13. xv NL “The Natural Law” (1956). Miller Papers, Box 4: Folder 21. NS “The National State” (1945). Miller Papers, Box 3: Folder 3. OES “Obstacles to Ethical Study” (undated). Miller Papers, Box 6: Folder 13. RMF “Rejection as a Moral Factor” (1957). Miller Papers, Box 4: Folder 24. RPR “How to Render Passion Responsible?” (1942). Miller Papers, Box 12: Folder 3. SC “Solitude and Community: A Meditation” (1973). Miller Papers, Box 26: Folder 17. SF “History and the Sense of Fate” (1955). Miller Papers, Box 4: Folder 15. TI “The Individual” (1972). Miller Papers, Box 24: Folder 21. TR “Translation” (1956). Miller Papers, Box 4: Folder 19. TS “The Symbol” (1950–52). Miller Papers, Box 4: Folder 13. PAPERS COMPILED BY EUGENE R. MILLER PL “Papers and Letters of John William Miller,” edited and transcribed by Eugene R. Miller. This unpublished compilation of papers will be cited according to the pagination of Eugene Miller’s typescript. The typescript is available in the Miller Papers (Box 55). MISCELLANEOUS UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS MP John William Miller Papers, Williamsiana Collection, Williams College. Writings contained in the Miller Papers but not listed above will be cited by means of their location in the box and folder system of the collection; the box number will precede the folder number separated by a colon. For example, MP 3:1 indicates that the cited writing came from the first folder of the third box of the Miller Papers. See the bibliography for a more complete description of the Miller Papers. STUDENT NOTES PH 5, 1931 “Philosophy of the State.” Philosophy 5, Williams College, 1931. Transcribed by M. Holmes Hartshorne. Miller Papers, Box 22: Folder 7. PH 7, 1933 “Philosophy of History.” Philosophy 7, Williams College, 1951–52. Transcribed and edited by Joseph P. Fell, 1993. Miller Papers, Box 53: Folder 2. PH 1–2, 1950–51 “Types of Philosophy.” Philosophy 1–2, Williams College, 1950–51. Transcribed and edited by Joseph P. Fell, 1991. Miller Papers, Box 53: Folder 1. xvi ABBREVIATIONS PH 8, 1951 “American Philosophy.” Philosophy 8, Williams College, Spring 1951. Transcribed and edited by Joseph P. Fell, 1997. Miller Papers, Box 53: Folder 2. PH 19–20 1952–53 “Maintaining Criticism: The Metaphysics of Ethics and Epistemology.” Philosophy 19–20, Williams College, 1952–53. Transcribed and edited by Joseph P. Fell, 1998. Miller Papers, Box 52: Folder 16. Student notes are cited by the class taught by Miller (e.g., PH 8 was American Philosophy in the old Williams College system), the year in which the class occurred, and the page number of the cited passage as it appears in the transcript maintained in the Miller Papers. ABBREVIATIONS xvii T H E A C T I V E L I F E ...