Arthur LovejoyThe Great Chain of Being
A Study of the History of an Idea
I: Introduction the Study of the History of Ideas
II: The Genesis of the Idea in Greek Philosophy
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
