Showing papers in "Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie in 1981"

Reforging the Great Chain of Being. Studies of the History of Modal Theories

Abstract: Gaps in the Great Chain. of Being: An Exercise in the Methodology of the History of Ideas.- Empty Forms in Plato.- Aristotle on the Realization of Possibilities in Time.- Aristotle and the Priority of Actuality.- Anselm's Modal Conceptions.- Time and Modality in Scholasticism.- Leibniz on Plenitude, Relations, and the 'Reign of Law'.- Kant on 'The Great Chain of Being' or the Eventual Realization of All Possibilities: A Comparative Study.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.