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

Lovejoy, Arthur O.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674361539 ISBN 13 : 9780674361539

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Arthur O. Lovejoy taught philosophy for nearly forty years at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous works, including Essays in the History of Ideas and Revolt against Dualism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0674361539
• ISBN 13: 9780674361539
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 394
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible