The great chain of being : a study of the history of an idea
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| Formato: | Libro |
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| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Nueva York, Estados Unidos
Harper & Row
1965
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| Edición: | Primera edición |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Introduction: The study of history of ideas
- II. The genesis of the idea in Greek philosophy: the Three Principles
- III. The chain of being and some internal conflicts in medieval thought
- IV. The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography
- V. Plenitude and suffcient reason in Leibniz and Spinoza
- VI. The chain of being in Eighteenth-Century thought, and man's place and rôle in nature
- VII. The principle of Plenitude and Eighteenth-Century optimism
- VIII. The chain of being and some aspects of Eighteenth-Century biology
- IX. The temporalizing of the chain of being
- X. Romanticism and the principle of Plenitude
- XI. The outcome of the history and its moral
- Notes
- Index of Names and Subjects
