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

• Autore: Lovejoy Arthur O (Arthur Oncken), <1873-1962.>
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c1964
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 382p.)
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetto topico: Continuity; Chain of being (Philosophy)
• 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
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• Titolo autorizzato: The great chain of being
• ISBN: 0-674-04033-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813529403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: William James lectures.