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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Series:

William James lectures.

William James lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continuity.

Chain of being (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 382p.)

Other Title:

Chain of being

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c1964.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780674040335

0674040333

OCLC:

923109807