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

ISBN-13: 9781138536005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 413 str.

Arthur Lovejoy

Opis

This is arguably the seminal work in historical and philosophical analysis of the twentieth century

Spis treści

I: Introduction the Study of the History of Ideas; II: The Genesis of the Idea in Greek Philosophy; 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

O autorze

Arthur Lovejoy