Lovejoy Arthur O. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001. — 382 p.Introduction: the Study of the History of Ideas
The Genesis ofthe Idea in Greek Philosophy: the Three Principles
The Chain of Being and Some Internal Conflicts in Medieval Thought
The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography
Plenitude and Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza
The Chain of Being in Eighteenth-Century Thought, and Man's Place and Role in Nature
The Principle of Plenitude and Eighteenth-Century Optimism
The Chain of Being and Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Biology
The Temporalizing of the Chain of Being
Romanticism and the Principle of Plenitude
The Outcome of the History and Its Moral