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The Great Chain Of Being: A Study Of The History Of An Idea - the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University, 1933 - Arthur O. Lovejoy
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, 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.

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Dewey 119
Format Paperback
Cover Price 24,50 €
No. of Pages 382
Height x Width 198 x 140 mm
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