The Great Chain of Being A Study of the History of an Idea
| Author/creator | Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : Harvard University Press |
| Description | 400 p. ill 08.000 x 05.250 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | The William James Lectures |
| Summary | Annotation <p>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.</p><p>In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Professor Lovejoy points out the three principles--plenitude, continuity, and graduation--which were combined in this conception; analyzes their origins in the philosophies of Plato, Aristole, and the Neoplatonists; traces the most important of their diverse samifications in subsequent religious thought, in metaphysics, in ethics and asesthics, 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.</p> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 36014264 |
| ISBN | 9780674361539 |
| ISBN | 0674361539 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780674361539 |
| Stock number | 00011705 |
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