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

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I. Introduction: the Study of the History of Ideas

II. The Genesis of the Idea in Greek Philosophy: the Three Principles

III. The Chain of Being and Some Internal Conflicts in Medieval Thought

IV. The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography

V. Plenitude and Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza

VI. The Chain of Being in Eighteenth-Century Thought, and Man's Place and Role in Nature

VII. The Principle of Plenitude and Eighteenth-Century Optimism

VIII. The Chain of Being and Some Aspects of Eighteenth- Century Biology

IX. The Temporalizing of the Chain of Being

X. Romanticism and the Principle of Plenitude

XI. The Outcome of the History and Its Moral

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