TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lovejoy,Arthur O.
TI  - The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea 
SN  - 9780674040335
AV  - B105.C5 L6 1964eb
U1  - 119 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Chain of being (Philosophy)
KW  - Continuity
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040335?locatt=mode:legacy
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ER  -