The great chain of being : a study of the history of an idea : the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University, 1933 / by Arthur O. Lovejoy
- Author
- Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962
- Additional Titles
- Chain of being
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [1964]
- Copyright Date
- ©1964
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 382 pages)
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- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. Introduction: the Study of the History of Ideas -- II. The Genesis of the Idea in Greek Philosophy: the Three Principles -- III. The Chain of Being and Some Internal Conflicts in Medieval Thought -- IV. The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography -- V. Plenitude and Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza -- VI. The Chain of Being in Eighteenth-Century Thought, and Man's Place and RÃ?le in Nature -- VII. The Principle of Plenitude and Eighteenth-Century Optimism -- VIII. The Chain of Being and Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Biology and IX. The Temporalizing of the Chain of BeingX. Romanticism and the Principle of Plenitude -- XI. The Outcome of the History and Its Moral -- Notes -- Index of Names and Subjects
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- ISBN
- 9780674040335 (electronic bk.)
0674040333 (electronic bk.)
0674361539 (pbk.)
9780674361539 (pbk.) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-373) and index.
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