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Arthur O. Lovejoy

    Arthur Oncken Lovejoy è una figura fondamentale nella storia delle idee, un campo che ha istituito attraverso il suo rigoroso esame dei concetti intellettuali. Ha aperto la strada allo studio delle "idee unitarie", tracciando meticolosamente come concetti singoli, spesso monoremi, si combinano ed evolvono attraverso le epoche storiche. La sua acuta critica del pragmatismo, in particolare in "The Thirteen Pragmatisms", rimane un contributo significativo all'epistemologia. Oltre all'ambito accademico, Lovejoy si è attivamente impegnato nella vita pubblica, co-fondando organizzazioni chiave e considerando attentamente i limiti della libertà intellettuale di fronte a minacce percepite.

    Die grosse Kette der Wesen
    The Great Chain of Being
    • The Great Chain of Being

      • 382pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      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 ramifications 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.

      The Great Chain of Being
    • Die grosse Kette der Wesen

      • 463pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      In diesem aus einer 1933 an der Harvard University gehaltenen Vorlesung hervorgegangenen Buch untersucht Lovejoy die Entstehung, Entfaltung und Auflösung eines philosophischen, genauer: eines kosmologischen Gedankens, der das westliche Denken mehr als zwei Jahrtausende lang entscheidend beeinflußt hat. Seine weiteste Verbreitung verdankt dieser Gedanke allerdings nicht der Philosophie, aus der er ursprünglich stammt, sondern der Literatur, Popularwissenschaft und Populartheologie des 18. Jahrhunderts. Alexander Popes »Essay on Man« liefert die Formulierung, durch die der Gedanke seither bekannt ist und die Lovejoy als Titel über sein Buch setzte: »The Great Chain of Being«.

      Die grosse Kette der Wesen