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The Great Chain of Being (Harvard paperbacks) (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 382 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press; New edition edition (1 Jul 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0674361539
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674361539
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 14 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 162,294 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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...The learning exhibited in this book is vast. -- Raphael Demos "Modern Language Notes"

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Reviews the ideas and implications of the Chain of Being and its impact on the history of Western thought.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great essay about the history of ideas, 18 Mar 2002
One of the best biologists of our times, Ernst Mayr, said about this book: "I learned more from the Great Chain of Being than from any other book I have ever read". Lovejoy follows the idea of 'scala naturae' from the beginning to the XVIII Century, when it faded in the birth of evolutionism. His book is one of the best essays about the history of the ideas. The concept of a great chain of being is one of the most famous ideas of Occidental philosophy, science and poetry, and it has been one of the most widely familiar conception of the general scheme of things, of the constitutive pattern of the universe.
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