Lovejoy, Arthur

Lovejoy, Arthur O. The great chain of being a study of the history of an idea. 

Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being [1936] (New York Harper Torchbooks, i960), 227f. 

More than any other scholars Arthur Lovejoy and Jaako Hintikka have discussed whether Aristode accepted a doctrine of the plenitude of being. In his classic work, The Great Chain of Being Lovejoy articulates the doctrine as follows ... 

Arthur Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being A Study in the History of an Idea, (Cambridge, Mass Harvard university press 1936), p. 52. 

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