The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea

Lovejoy, Arthur O.

ISBN 10: 0674361539 / ISBN 13: 9780674361539

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1976

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From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world.In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy points out the three principles plenitude, continuity, and graduation which were combined in this conception; analyzes their origins in the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists; traces the most important of their diverse samifications in subsequent religious thought, in metaphysics, in ethics and aesthetics, and in astronomical and biological theories; and copiously illustrates the influence of the conception as a whole, and of the ideas out of which it was compounded, upon the imagination and feelings as expressed in literature.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Arthur O. Lovejoy taught philosophy for nearly forty years at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous works, including Essays in the History of Ideas and Revolt against Dualism.

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Titel: The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the ...
Verlag: Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1976
Einband: Paperback
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