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266: 850:"This idea of a great chain of being can be traced to Plato's division of the world into the Forms, which are full beings, and sensible things, which are imitations of the Forms and are both being and not being. Aristotle's teleology recognized a perfect being, and he also arranges all animals by a single natural scale according to the degree of perfection of their souls. The idea of the great chain of being was fully developed in Neoplatonism and in the Middle Ages.", Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy, p. 289 (2004) 248: 38: 146:. Beneath them are humans, consisting both of spirit and matter; they change and die, and are thus essentially impermanent. Lower are animals and plants. At the bottom are the mineral materials of the earth itself; they consist only of matter. Thus, the higher the being is in the chain, the more attributes it has, including all the attributes of the beings below it. The minerals are, in the medieval mind, a possible exception to the 560: 654:
Allenby and Garreau propose that the Catholic Church's narrative of the great chain of being kept the peace in Europe for centuries. The very concept of rebellion simply lay outside the reality within which most people lived, for to defy the King was to defy God. King James I himself wrote, "The
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The set nature of species, and thus the absoluteness of creatures' places in the great chain, came into question during the 18th century. The dual nature of the chain, divided yet united, had always allowed for seeing creation as essentially one continuous whole, with the potential for overlap
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allowed for an ordering of beings, thus forming a basis for classification where each kind of mineral, plant and animal could be slotted into place. In medieval times, the great chain was seen as a God-given and unchangeable ordering. In the
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and language, and physical attributes with the animals below them, like having material bodies that experienced emotions and sensations such as lust and pain, and physical needs such as hunger and thirst.
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Plants lacked sense organs and the ability to move, but they could grow and reproduce. The highest plants have important healing attributes within their leaves, buds, and flowers. Lower plants included
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At the bottom of the chain, minerals were unable to move, sense, grow, or reproduce. Their attributes were being solid and strong, while the gemstones possessed magic. The king of gems was the
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also lists several entities: "Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come".
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state of monarchy is the most supreme thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods."
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sets out a partial list: "everything visible and everything invisible, Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers – all things were created through him and for him." The
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believe he created the entire universe and everything in it. He has spiritual attributes found in angels and humans. God has unique attributes of
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saw a progression of life forms from the simplest creatures striving towards complexity and perfection, a schema accepted by zoologists like
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used the great chain as the basis for its cosmology. Since all beings were linked into a chain, so that there was a fundamental unity of all
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The idea of the great chain, as well as the derived "missing link", was abandoned in early 20th-century science, as the notion of
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was abandoned in biology. The idea of a certain sequence from "lower" to "higher" however lingers on, as does the idea of
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The Great Chain of being links God, angels, humans, animals, plants, and minerals. The links of the chain are:
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The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the age of Shakespeare, Donne & Milton
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might enable the alchemical transformation of one substance to another, such as the base metal
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The chain of being hierarchy has God at the top, above angels, which like him are entirely
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were sessile, attached to the sea-bed. All, however, share the senses of touch and taste.
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from 1737, where he divided the physical components of the world into the three familiar
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described a "Great Nest of Being" which he claims to belong to a culture-independent "
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set out a more elaborate hierarchy, consisting of three lists, each of three types:
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The Great Chain of Being reflected in the work of Descartes, Spinoza & Leibniz
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Aristotle's non-religious concept of higher and lower organisms was taken up by
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Humans uniquely share spiritual attributes with God and the angels above them,
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in 19th-century education, and the concept was well known. The geologist
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Animals have senses, are able to move, and have physical appetites. The
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is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval
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The basic idea of a ranking of the world's organisms goes back to
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La Hiérarchie naturelle. Matière, vie, conscience et symbole,
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Monad to man: the Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology
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Monad to man: the Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology
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described a hierarchy of beings, with humans at the top able
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modern animals representing ancestors of other modern animals
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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
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God is the creator of all things. Many religions, such as
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shown as a reinterpreted chain of being with living and
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Angels of revelation, able to communicate with humans
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