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Autore: | Lovejoy Arthur O (Arthur Oncken), <1873-1962.> |
Titolo: | 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 |
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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | Paper mosaics, silk screen prints, fold-outs, silhouettes, and other types of cards to make yourself. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Chain of being |
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 |
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