Great Chain of Being

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

Arthur O. Lovejoy

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«The Great Chain of Being, employed as a title, would have suggested…what was 'probably the most widely familiar conception of the general scheme of things'—the idea of a world in which every being was related to every other in a continuously graded scale, with no possible form of diversity missing. Pursuing the biography of this idea through more than two thousand years, the distinguished author of these lectures makes clear its amazing influence on the thought and history of the Western World… Intellectual vigor, critical precision and an amazing knowledge of what mankind has thought and desired in other ages distinguishes this book. No student of the history of literature, science, or philosophy may well neglect it.»
Clifford Barrett, New York Times Book Review

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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 Neoplatonists; traces the most important of their diverse samifications in subsequent religious thought, in metaphysics, in ethics and aesthetics, and in astronomical and biological theories; and copiously illustrates the influence of the conception as a whole, and of the ideas out of which it was compounded, upon the imagination and feelings as expressed in literature.

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Forlag: Harvard University Press
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
ISBN: 9780674361539
Utgivelsesår: 2010
Format: 20 x 13 cm

Om forfatteren

Arthur O. Lovejoy taught philosophy for nearly forty years at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous works, including Essays in the History of Ideas and Revolt against Dualism.

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«The Great Chain of Being, employed as a title, would have suggested…what was 'probably the most widely familiar conception of the general scheme of things'—the idea of a world in which every being was related to every other in a continuously graded scale, with no possible form of diversity missing. Pursuing the biography of this idea through more than two thousand years, the distinguished author of these lectures makes clear its amazing influence on the thought and history of the Western World… Intellectual vigor, critical precision and an amazing knowledge of what mankind has thought and desired in other ages distinguishes this book. No student of the history of literature, science, or philosophy may well neglect it.»
Clifford Barrett, New York Times Book Review

«One of the great books of our generation.»
Marjorie Nicolson, American Scholar

«A fascinating and moving book… Everyone interested in the larger ironies of human history should read [it].»
Ernest Nagel, New Republic

«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… The learning exhibited in this book is vast.»
Raphael Demos, Modern Language Notes

Medlemmers vurdering

Bente – 28.12.2006

– Lovejoy kommer her med tanken om at kunnskap består av tidløse idéatomer, som danner ulike forbindelser til ulike tider. Han avleder altså idéhistorie av kjemi. Idéene har et begrenset antall, og samsvarer ofte ikke med vanlige klassifiseringer. "Gud" består for eksempel av mange idéatomer, og ulike idéer til ulike tider. Disse ideene har gjort Lovejoy til en respektert og anerkjent akademiker, noe som er interessant i seg selv. Han argumenterer godt for sine kreative ideer, og viser hvordan de har røtter tilbake til tidlige filosofer. Lovejoy har stor historisk kunnskap og boka er også en fremragende historiebok, for dem som er mer opptatt av tanker og ideer enn av konger og kriger.

egle – 24.11.2006

– Den amerikanske tenkeren Arthur Lovejoy sies å ha dannet feltet "idéhistorie". Boken "the great chain of being" er et manifest over hans idehistoriske betraktninger. Lovejoy forkaster teorien om at vitenskap dannes brått og plutselig i en avgrenset periode. Det meste av vitenskap og tanker de 2000 siste år bygges på tre prinsipper fra gammel gresk filosofi, ifølge Lovejoy. Ideene plenitude, gradering og koninuitet, fra Platon og Aristoteles danner et begreps og tankeapparat for folk som Kopernikus, Kepler, Bruno i senmiddelalder/klassisismen. Boken er svært intressant, men krever en god del arbeid for å sette seg inn i. Boken er et idéhistorisk verk.