The great chain of being : a study of the history of an idea : the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University, 1933

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©1964.
Subjects:
Continuity.
Chain of being (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Continuity
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Table of 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
  • 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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