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    Arthur Oncken Lovejoy es una figura fundacional en la historia de las ideas, un campo que estableció a través de su riguroso examen de los conceptos intelectuales. Fue pionero en el estudio de las "ideas unitarias", rastreando meticulosamente cómo los conceptos individuales, a menudo de una sola palabra, se combinan y evolucionan a lo largo de las épocas históricas. Su aguda crítica del pragmatismo, particularmente en "The Thirteen Pragmatisms", sigue siendo una contribución significativa a la epistemología. Más allá de la academia, Lovejoy participó activamente en la vida pública, cofundando organizaciones clave y considerando cuidadosamente los límites de la libertad intelectual frente a amenazas percibidas.

    The Great Chain of Being

    • The Great Chain of Being

      • 382 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      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, Arthur O. Lovejoy points out the three principles - plenitude, continuity, and graduation - which were combined in this conception; analyzes their origins in the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists; traces the most important of their diverse ramifications in subsequent religious thought, in metaphysics, in ethics and aesthetics, 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.

      The Great Chain of Being
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