Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1936. With new introd. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface -- 1. Introduction : The Study of the History of Ideas -- 2. The Genesis of the Idea in Greek Philosophy : The Three Principles -- 3. The Chain of Being and Some Internal Conflicts in Medieval Thought -- 4. The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography -- 5. Plenitude and Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza -- 6. The Chain of Being in Eighteenth-Century Thought, and Man's Place and Role in Nature -- 7. The Principle of Plentitude and Eighteenth-Century Optimism -- 8. The Chain of Being and Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Biology -- 9. The Temporalizing of the Chain of Being -- 10. Romanticism and the Principle of Plenitude -- 11. The Outcome of the History and Its Moral -- Notes -- Index of Names and Subjects.
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