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The great chain of being: a study of the history of an idea

Arthur O. Lovejoy 2001 © The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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  • 9780674040335 (ebook)
  • 9780674361508 (hardcover)
  • 9780674361539 (paper)
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  • Science & Technology
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  • Frontmatter
  • I. Introduction: the Study of the History of Ideas (page 3)
  • II. The Genesis of the Idea in Greek Philosophy: the Three Principles (page 24)
  • III. The Chain of Being and Some Internal Conflicts in Medieval Thought (page 67)
  • IV. The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography (page 99)
  • V. Plenitude and Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza (page 144)
  • VI. The Chain of Being in Eighteenth-Century Optimism (page 183)
  • VII. The Principle of Plenitude and Eighteenth-Century Optimism (page 208)
  • VIII. The Chain of Being and Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Biology (page 227)
  • IX. The Temporalizing of the Chain of Being (page 242)
  • X. Romanticism and the Principle of Plenitude (page 288)
  • XI. The Outcome of the History and Its Moral (page 315)
  • Notes (page 335)
  • Index of Names and Subjects (page 375)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SAS 1.2 (Winter 1937): 252-256 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40399063
ISIS 28.2 (May 1938): 537-540 http://www.jstor.org/stable/225732
PR 47. 2 (Mar. 1938): 214-218 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2180858
ISIS 27.1 (May 1937): 111-114 http://www.jstor.org/stable/225039
JEGP 37.1 (Jan. 1938): 109-114 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27704363
MLN 52.7 (Nov. 1937): 518-520 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2911669
IJE 47.4 (Jul. 1937): 486-490 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2989373
JPH 33.21 (Oct. 1936): 580-581 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2016062
JR 17.2 (Apr. 1937): 204-206 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1196082
MIND 46.183 (Jul. 1937): 400-405 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2250227
PHIL 12.45 (Jan. 1937): 113-114 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3747098
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