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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455410703321

Autore

Lovejoy Arthur O (Arthur Oncken), <1873-1962.>

Titolo

The great chain of being [[electronic resource] ] : a study of the history of an idea : the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University, 1933 / / by Arthur O. Lovejoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c1964

ISBN

0-674-04033-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 382p.)

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Continuity

Chain of being (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-373) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- 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 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 -- Notes -- Index of Names and Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

Paper mosaics, silk screen prints, fold-outs, silhouettes, and other types of cards to make yourself.