The Great Chain of Being : : A Study of the History of an Idea / / Arthur O. Lovejoy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Lovejoy, Arthur O.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©1963
• Năm xuất bản: 2021
• Ngôn ngữ: English
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Tóm tắt: 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.
• Định dạng: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• số ISBN: 9780674040335; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674040335?locatt=mode:legacy
• Truy cập: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Arthur O. Lovejoy.

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. Lo...