The great chain of being
Subtitle: a study of the history of an idea : the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University, 1933
By: by Arthur O. Lovejoy.
Series: The William James lectures -- 1933
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1957
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Continuity.; Chain of being (Philosophy)
Other titles: Dr. John Carbonara; Chain of being
Description: A contribution to the history of ideas.
Notes: Dr. John Carbonara

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-373) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: the study of the history of ideas; value: The genesis of the idea in Greek philosophy: the three principles; value: The chain of being and some internal conflicts in medieval thought; value: The principle of plenitude and the new cosmography; value: Plenitude and sufficient reason in Leibniz and Spinoza; value: The chain of being in eighteenth-century optimism; value: The chain of being and some aspects of eighteenth-century biology; value: The temporalizing of the chain of being; value: Romanticism and the principle of plenitude; value: The outcome of the history and its moral.