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The Great Chain of Being

Author	: Arthur Lovejoy
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2017-09-12
ISBN	: 9781138536005
Pages	: 413 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Great Chain of Being written by Arthur Lovejoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is arguably the seminal work in historical and philosophical analysis of the twentieth century. Originally delivered for the William James lecture series at Harvard University in 1932-33, it remains the cornerstone of the history of ideas. Lovejoy sees philosophy's history as one of confusion of ideas, a prime example of which is the idea of a "great chain of being"--a universe linked in theology, science and values by pre-determined stages in all phases of life. Lovejoy's view is one of dualities in nature and society, with both error and truth as part of the natural order of things. The past reminds us that the ruling modes of thought of our own age, which we may view as clear, coherent and firmly grounded, are unlikely to be seen with such certainty by posterity. The Great Chain of Beingis an excursion into the past, with a clear mission--to discourage the assumption that all is known, or that what is known is not subject to modifi cation at a later time. Lovejoy reaffirms the "intrinsic worth of diversity," as a caution against certitude. By this he does not mean toleration of indiff erence, or relativity for its own sake, but an appreciation of mental and physical process of human beings. As Peter Stanlis notes in his introduction: "Faith in the great chain of being was fi nally largely extinguished by the combined infl uences of Romantic idealism, Darwin's theory of evolution, and Einstein's theory of relativity." Few books remain as alive to prospects for the future by reconsidering follies of the past as does Lovejoy's stunning work.

The Great Chain of Being

Author	: Arthur O. Lovejoy
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Release Date	: 1936
ISBN	: 9780674361539
Pages	: 404 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Great Chain of Being written by Arthur O. Lovejoy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1936 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the ideas and implications of the Chain of Being and its impact on the history of Western thought

The Great Chain of Being

Author	: Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1960
ISBN	:
Pages	: 388 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Great Chain of Being written by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining the concepts of plenitude, continuity, and graduation, the author demonstrates how a single idea can influence centuries of Western thought. -- Back cover.

The Great Chain of Being

Author	: Arthur Lovejoy
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2017-07-12
ISBN	: 1351481959
Pages	: 413 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Great Chain of Being written by Arthur Lovejoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is arguably the seminal work in historical and philosophical analysis of the twentieth century. Originally delivered for the William James lecture series at Harvard University in 1932-33, it remains the cornerstone of the history of ideas. Lovejoy sees philosophy's history as one of confusion of ideas, a prime example of which is the idea of a "great chain of being"--a universe linked in theology, science and values by pre-determined stages in all phases of life. Lovejoy's view is one of dualities in nature and society, with both error and truth as part of the natural order of things. The past reminds us that the ruling modes of thought of our own age, which we may view as clear, coherent and firmly grounded, are unlikely to be seen with such certainty by posterity. The Great Chain of Being is an excursion into the past, with a clear mission--to discourage the assumption that all is known, or that what is known is not subject to modifi cation at a later time. Lovejoy reaffirms the "intrinsic worth of diversity," as a caution against certitude. By this he does not mean toleration of indiff erence, or relativity for its own sake, but an appreciation of mental and physical process of human beings. As Peter Stanlis notes in his introduction: "Faith in the great chain of being was fi nally largely extinguished by the combined infl uences of Romantic idealism, Darwin's theory of evolution, and Einstein's theory of relativity." Few books remain as alive to prospects for the future by reconsidering follies of the past as does Lovejoy's stunning work.

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 9, Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

Author	: George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 1989
ISBN	: 9780521300148
Pages	: 506 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 9, Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives written by George Alexander Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ninth volume in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism presents a wide-ranging survey of developments in literary criticism and theory during the last century. Drawing on the combined expertise of a large team of specialist scholars, it offers an authoritative account of the various movements of thought that have made the late twentieth century such a richly productive period in the history of criticism. The aim has been to cover developments which have had greatest impact on the academic study of literature, along with background chapters that place those movements in a broader, intellectual, national and socio-cultural perspective. In comparison with Volumes Seven and Eight, also devoted to twentieth-century developments, there is marked emphasis on the rethinking of historical and philosophical approaches, which have emerged, especially during the past two decades, as among the most challenging areas of debate.

Reforging the Great Chain of Being

Author	: Simo Knuuttila
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date	: 2013-03-14
ISBN	: 9401576629
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Reforging the Great Chain of Being written by Simo Knuuttila and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sports reporter might say that in a competition all the participants realize their potentialities or possibilities. When an athlete performs far below his usual standard, it can be said that it was possible for him to do better. But the idea of fair play requires that this use of 'possible' refers to another com petition. It is presumed that the best athlete wins and that no real possibility of doing better is left unrealized in a competition. Here we have a use of language, a language game, in which modal notions are used so as to imply that if something is possible, it is realized. This idea does not belong to the general presuppositions of current ordinary usage. It is, nevertheless, not difficult to fmd other similar examples outside of the language of sports. It may be that such a use of modal notions is sometimes calculated to express that in the context in question there are no real alternative courses of events in contradistinction to other cases in which some possible alternatives remain unrealized. Even though modal notions are currently interpreted without the presup position that each genuine possibility should be realized at some moment of the actual history, there are contemporary philosophical models of modalities which incorporate this presupposition. In his book Untersuchungen tiber den Modalkalkiil (Anton Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1952, pp. 16-36), Oscar Becker presents a statistical interpretation of modal calculi.

The Great Chain of Being

Author	: Arthur O. LOVEJOY
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Release Date	: 2009-06-30
ISBN	: 0674040333
Pages	: 400 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Great Chain of Being written by Arthur O. LOVEJOY and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper mosaics, silk screen prints, fold-outs, silhouettes, and other types of cards to make yourself.

Empirical Logic and Public Debate

Author	: Erik C. W. Krabbe
Publisher	: Rodopi
Release Date	: 1993
ISBN	: 9789051835922
Pages	: 360 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Logic and Public Debate written by Erik C. W. Krabbe and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical Logic and Public Debate supplies a large number of previously unpublished papers that together make up a survey of recent developments in the field of empirical logic. It contains theoretical contributions, some of a more formal and some of an informal nature, as well as numerous contemporary and historical case studies. The book will therefore be attractive both to those who wish to focus upon the theory and practice of discussion, debate, arguing, and argument, as well as to those readers who are primarily interested in applications to a particular field, such as ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, or the history of philosophy.

It Could Have Been Otherwise

Author	: Hester Goodenough Gelber
Publisher	: BRILL
Release Date	: 2004-01-01
ISBN	: 9004139079
Pages	: 423 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book It Could Have Been Otherwise written by Hester Goodenough Gelber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This description of Dominicans at Oxford from 1300-1350 and the theology of Hugh of Lawton, Arnold of Strelley, William Crathorn and Robert Holcot reclaims the Dominicans as highly original contributors to theology and philosophy at a time of great innovation.

Primal Religion and the Bible

Author	: Gillian M. Bediako
Publisher	: A&C Black
Release Date	: 1997-08-01
ISBN	: 9781850756729
Pages	: 418 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Primal Religion and the Bible written by Gillian M. Bediako and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important study of the published and unpublished writings of Scotland's most brilliant and controversial nineteenth-century theologian focuses on his concern to situate biblical religion within the context of the primal religions of Israel's neighbours. The book explores the implications of the relationship between the Christian faith and primal religion. Robertson Smith has still a contribution to make to contemporary discussion of the phenomenology of the Christian faith and Christian responses to religious pluralism.

All Men and Both Sexes

Author	: Hilda L. Smith
Publisher	: Penn State Press
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN	: 9780271021829
Pages	: 252 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book All Men and Both Sexes written by Hilda L. Smith and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Men and Both Sexes explores the use of such universal terms as &"people,&" &"man,&" or &"human&" in early modern England, from the civil war through the Enlightenment. Such language falsely implies inclusion of both men and women when actually it excludes women. Recent scholarship has focused on the Rights of Man doctrine from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution as explanation for women&’s exclusion from citizenship. According to Hilda Smith we need to go back further, to the English Revolution and the more grounded (but equally restricted) values tied to the &"free born Englishman.&" Citing educational treatises, advice literature to young people, guild records, popular periodicals, and parliamentary debates, she demonstrates how the &"male maturation process&" came to define the qualities attached to citizenship and responsible adulthood, which in turn became the basis for modern individualism and liberalism. By the eighteenth century a new discourse of sensibility was describing women as dependent beings outside the state, in a separate sphere and in need of protection. This excluded women from reform debates, forcing them to seek not an extension of a democratic franchise but a specific women&’s suffrage focused on gender difference.

Thomas Aquinas and His Legacy

Author	: David M. Gallagher
Publisher	: CUA Press
Release Date	: 2018-03-02
ISBN	: 0813230608
Pages	: 247 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Aquinas and His Legacy written by David M. Gallagher and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays in this collection approach the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas not merely as an object of scholarly interest but also as a framework for addressing perennial philosophical questions, even as they are raised and debated in our own times. The f

The Four Ways to Construct Narratives on Origins

Author	: Pascal Nouvel
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2021-01-05
ISBN	: 1527564207
Pages	: 351 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Four Ways to Construct Narratives on Origins written by Pascal Nouvel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book proposes an originology, an investigation into the discourses on origins. This leads to the identification of four different types of discourses on origins: the mythical discourses (biblical Genesis or Hesiod’s Theogony, for example); the rational discourses (which either delve deeper or, on the contrary, attempt to disqualify the question of origins); the scientific discourses (of the Universe, of the Earth, of life, of man as seen by the sciences); and, finally, the phenomenological discourses (which, since Husserl, propose a completely new way of entering into the question of origins). The various ways in which one can talk about origins, without exclusivity and without giving preference to any of these discourses, are examined here. The book shows that each of these discourses has a singular structure: In order to this, it defines ascending and descending types of discourse, and demonstrates that scientific discourses are ascending; mythical ones are descending; rational ones are both ascending and descending; and finally, phenomenological ones are neither ascending nor descending. It also shows that scientific discourses on origins did not themselves originate at the time of the scientific revolution, but much later, in the 19th century with Darwin. It is biology that will pave the way to physics when it turns to discourses on origins, not the other way around.

Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

Author	: Bennett Zon
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2017-10-12
ISBN	: 1108326269
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture written by Bennett Zon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical culture to question the hegemonic role ascribed to Darwin by later thinkers, and interrogates the conceptual premise of modern debates in evolutionary musicology. Structured around the Great Chain of Being, chapters are organized by discipline in successively ascending order according to their object of study, from zoology and the study of animal music to theology and the music of God. Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture takes a non-Darwinian approach to the interpretation of Victorian scientific and musical interrelationships, debunking the idea that the arts had little influence on contemporary scientific ideas and, by probing the origins of musical interdisciplinarity, the volume shows how music helped ideas about evolution to evolve.

Nature's Ghosts

Author	: Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Release Date	: 2011-04-15
ISBN	: 0226038157
Pages	: 512 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Ghosts written by Mark V. Barrow, Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the Endangered Species Act, naturalists and concerned citizens recognized—and worried about—the problem of human-caused extinction. As Mark V. Barrow reveals in Nature’s Ghosts, the threat of species loss has haunted Americans since the early days of the republic. From Thomas Jefferson’s day—when the fossil remains of such fantastic lost animals as the mastodon and the woolly mammoth were first reconstructed—through the pioneering conservation efforts of early naturalists like John James Audubon and John Muir, Barrow shows how Americans came to understand that it was not only possible for entire species to die out, but that humans themselves could be responsible for their extinction. With the destruction of the passenger pigeon and the precipitous decline of the bison, professional scientists and wildlife enthusiasts alike began to understand that even very common species were not safe from the juggernaut of modern, industrial society. That realization spawned public education and legislative campaigns that laid the foundation for the modern environmental movement and the preservation of such iconic creatures as the bald eagle, the California condor, and the whooping crane. A sweeping, beautifully illustrated historical narrative that unites the fascinating stories of endangered animals and the dedicated individuals who have studied and struggled to protect them, Nature’s Ghosts offers an unprecedented view of what we’ve lost—and a stark reminder of the hard work of preservation still ahead.

Fifty Key Works of History and Historiography

Author	: Kenneth R. Stunkel
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2012-05-23
ISBN	: 1136723676
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Key Works of History and Historiography written by Kenneth R. Stunkel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Key Works of History and Historiography introduces some of the most important works ever written by those who have sought to understand, capture, query and interpret the past. The works covered include texts from ancient times to the present day and from different cultural traditions ensuring a wide variety of schools, methods and ideas are introduced. Each of the fifty texts represents at least one of six broad categories: early examples of historiography (e.g. Herodotus and Augustine) non-western works (e.g. Shaddad and Fukuzawa) ‘Critical’ historiography (e.g. Mabillon and Ranke) history of minorities, neglected groups or subjects (e.g. Said and Needham) broad sweeps of history (e.g. Mumford and Hofstadter) problematic or unconventional historiography (e.g. Foucault and White). Each of the key works is introduced in a short essay written in a lively and engaging style which provides the ideal preparation for reading the text itself. Complete with a substantial introduction to the field, this book is the perfect starting point for anyone new to the study of history or historiography.

Thinking About History

Author	: Sarah Maza
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Release Date	: 2017-09-18
ISBN	: 022610947X
Pages	: 264 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Thinking About History written by Sarah Maza and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it. Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view the nation as the inevitable context for history, and what happens when we move outside those boundaries? What is the relation among popular, academic, and public history, and how should we evaluate sources? What is the difference between description and interpretation, and how do we balance them? Maza provides choice examples in place of definitive answers, and the result is a book that will spark classroom discussion and offer students a view of history as a vibrant, ever-changing field of inquiry that is thoroughly relevant to our daily lives.