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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, 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.
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The Great Chain of Being, Arthur O. Lovejoy
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1990
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura)
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- Titolo
- The Great Chain of Being
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Arthur O. Lovejoy
- Editore
- Harvard University Press
- Pubblicato
- 1990
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 382
- ISBN10
- 0674361539
- ISBN13
- 9780674361539
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Storia, Esoterismo e religione, Scienze politiche & Politica, Temi religiosi, Tematica filosofica, Religione, Filosofia, Politica, Scienza, Storia della Scienza
- Titolo originale
- The great chain of being
- Valutazione
- 4,05 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.