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

Paperback • 1976 • English

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

By Arthur O. Lovejoy

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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 Neoplatonist...Show more

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9780674361539

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1976

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English

Original title

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

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Paperback

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