"One is All, and All is One." The Great Chain of Being in Berkeley’s Siris

@inbook{citeulike:1099911, abstract = {The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as "The Age of Reason": an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts. Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or was it a mass of chaotic, randomly moving atoms, as some materialist thinkers believed? This book explores the tensions and conflicts in these debates through a series of interdisciplinary essays from leading international scholars, each challenging the idea that the eighteenth century was an age of order.}, author = {Bradatan, Costica}, booktitle = {Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century}, citeulike-article-id = {1099911}, editor = {O'Gorman, Frank and Donald, Diana}, howpublished = {Hardcover}, isbn = {1403938202}, keywords = {alchemy, berkeley, nature, order}, month = {May}, pages = {63--82}, posted-at = {2007-02-11 04:06:26}, priority = {5}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, title = {"One is All, and All is One." The Great Chain of Being in Berkeley's Siris}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/1403938202}, year = {2006} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1099911 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1099911 N2 - The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as "The Age of Reason": an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts. Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or was it a mass of chaotic, randomly moving atoms, as some materialist thinkers believed? This book explores the tensions and conflicts in these debates through a series of interdisciplinary essays from leading international scholars, each challenging the idea that the eighteenth century was an age of order. SN - 1403938202 EP - 82 TI - "One is All, and All is One." The Great Chain of Being in Berkeley’s Siris PB - Palgrave Macmillan T2 - Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century SP - 63 KW - alchemy KW - berkeley KW - nature KW - order AU - Bradatan, Costica A2 - O'Gorman, Frank A2 - Donald, Diana PY - 2006/05/02/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/1403938202 ER -