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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea Paperback - 1976
by Arthur O. Lovejoy
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'Men are galvanized by ideas and act as vehicles for them ...Such a ruling idea is that of the great chain of being. Prof. Lovejoy's study records the birth, the growth, the vicissitudes, transformations, and finally the senility, and perhaps the death of this idea. The study is as fascinating as that of the rise and decay of an empire, and, in fact, it is the study of the empire of an idea over human minds throughout many centuries...Prof. Lovejoy's approach is fresh and different.' Modern Language Notes
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- Title The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
- Author Arthur O. Lovejoy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 13th Printing
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
- Date January 31, 1976
- ISBN 9780674361539 / 0674361539
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.46 x 1.04 in (20.62 x 13.87 x 2.64 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Continuity, Idea (Philosophy) - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 36014264
- Dewey Decimal Code 109
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Harvard University Press, January 1976. Paper Back. New. The Idea: that the universe is ''composed of an immense, or...infinite number of links ranging in hierarchical order from the meagerest kind of existents...through every possible grade up to the...highest possible kind of creature, between which and the Absolute Being the disparity was assumed to be infinite.'' Of this chain, Alexander Pope wrote thus: ''Vast chain of being! which from God began / Natures aethereal, human, angel, man / beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see / No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee / From thee to nothing...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd / From Nature's chain whatever link you strike / Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.'' This paradigm of the chain of being pervaded poetry, philosophy, science, theology, and morality alike for centuries, and in these William James Lectures delivered in 1933, it is examined and explicated…
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