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Annotation 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, Professor Lovejoy points out the three principles--plenitude, continuity, and graduation--which were combined in this conception; analyzes their origins in the philosophies of Plato, Aristole, and the Neoplatonists; traces the most important of their diverse samifications in subsequent religious thought, in metaphysics, in ethics and asesthics, 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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Author

Arthur O. Lovejoy, Peter J. Stanlis

Publisher

Harvard University Press; Harvard university press

Published

1936

Language

EN

ISBN

9781412810265

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, History

Rating

3.99 / 5 (285 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13