1st Edition
The Great Chain of Being A Study of the History of an Idea
By Arthur Lovejoy
Copyright 2009
408 Pages
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Routledge
408 Pages
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Routledge
413 Pages
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Routledge
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This is arguably the seminal work in historical and philosophical analysis of the twentieth century. Originally delivered for the William James lecture series at Harvard University in 1932-33, it remains the cornerstone of the history of ideas. Lovejoy sees philosophy's history as one of confusion of ideas, a prime example of which is the idea of a "great chain of being"--a universe linked in... Read more
I: Introduction the Study of the History of Ideas; II: The Genesis of the Idea in Greek Philosophy; 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 Role 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 Being; X: Romanticism and The Principle of Plenitude; XI: The Outcome of The History and Its Moral
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Arthur Lovejoy
