『Jacob's Ladder and the Tree of Life: Concepts of Hierarchy and the Great Chain of Being』

Marion L. Kuntz and Paul G. Kuntz (eds.)

(1987年刊行,Peter Lang[American University Studies - Series V: Philosophy: Volume 14 ], New York, x+434 pp., ISBN:0820402338 [hbk] → 版元ページ※第2版)

Arthur O. Lovejoy の「観念史」を継承して.

【目次】
Preface xi


I. Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine and the Great Thinkers who Founded and Perfected the Medieval World

  • Paul G. Kuntz - A Formal Preface and an Informal Conclusion to The Great Chain of Being: The Universality and Necessity of Hierarchical Thought 3
  • Dominic J. O'Meara - The Chain of Being in the Light of Recent Work on Platonic Hierarchies 15
  • Ronald F. Hatheway - Formal and Material Principles of Hierarchy 31
  • Paul G. Kuntz - From the Angel to the Worm: Augustine's Hierarchical Vision 41
  • Kevin P. Keane - The Summa Fratris Alexandri and Lovejoy's Dilemma 55
  • Ewart Cousins - Fecundity and the Trinity: An Appendix to Chapter Three of The Great Chain of Being 73
  • Paul G. Kuntz - The Hierarchical Vision of St. Bonaventure 83
  • Paul G. Kuntz - From the Highest Virtue to the Lowest Vice: What are the Principles of Hierarchy According to Modern Interpretations of Dante's Divine Comedy ? 101
  • Paul G. Kuntz - The Hierarchical Vision of St Roberto Bellarmino 111


II. The Hierarchical Structure of Medieval Society: Carolingian, Cisterician, Castilian, Conciliar

  • Helen Dickinson Baldwin - Architectural and Spatial Analogies to Theological and Political Hierarchies: The Carolingian Church 131
  • John R. Sommerfeldt - Epistemological and Social Hierarchies: A Potential Reconciliation of Some Inconcistencies in Bernard Thought 141
  • Lina Cofresi - Hierarchical Thought in the Spanish Middle Ages: Ramón Lull and Don Juan Manuel 153
  • Jonathan Beck - A Critical Moment in the History of 'Hierarchy': Secular Literature in France in the Age of the Schism and The Conciliar Movement (1378-1435) 161


III. Mystical Hierarchy: Jewism and Christian



  • David R. Blumenthal - Lovejoy's Great Chain of Being and the Medieval Jewish Tradition 179
  • Richard Schneider - Meister Eckhart's Reflections on the Relation Between the Superior and the Inferior 191
  • Agnès Housseau - Unity and the Kabbalistic Hierarchy in Giordano Bruno 213


IV. Hierarchical Thought in Renaissance England, Netherlands, and France, Sir John Fortescue, Erasmus, Bodin, Sharkespere, Descartes

  • Winifred G. Keaney - Sir John Fortescue and the Politics of the Chain of Being 221
  • Margo Todd - Erasmus, The Great Chain of Being, and the Puritan Revolution 239
  • Marion Leathers Kuntz - Pythagorean Cosmology and Its Identification in Bodin's Colloqium Heptaplomeres 253
  • Raymend V. Utterback - The Natural Order: Doctrines of Hierarchy and Correspondence in a Generation of Shakespere Criticism 267
  • James C. Doig - Denial of Hierarchy: Consequences for Scotus and Descartes 283


V. Hierarchy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and Hierarchy Rediscovered in the East by the West

  • Lewis S. Ford - The Last Link in The Great Chain of Being 299
  • R. Baine Harris - Dean Inge's Hierarchical Concept of Being 313
  • Paul G. Kuntz and Marion L. Kuntz - The Symbol of the Tree Interpreted in the Context of other Symbols of the Great Chain of Being and Jacob's Ladder 319
  • Paul G. Kuntz - Faibleman's Great Tree of Being 335
  • Paul G. Kuntz - Anais Nin's Quest for Order: Balance, Harmony, and Hierarchy 347
  • Paul G. Kuntz - The Metaphysics of Hierarchical Order: The Philosophic Center of Small is Beautiful 359
  • John Borelli - Vijñanabhiksu: Indian Thought and The Great Chain of Being 371


Bibliography 385
Index 419