The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea by Arthur O. Lovejoy

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

Arthur O. Lovejoy

400 pages first pub 1936 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 embod...

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