The great chain of being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God. The chain begins...

It was released on 31 December 2017 by Flightless. The album is the final of five albums released by the band in 2017. The artwork was designed by longtime...

successive reincarnations (Theosophy, Hermeticism). The concept of the Great Chain of Being was developed by Plato and Aristotle whose ideas were taken up...

thought of humans as links in the Great Chain of Being, a hierarchical structure of all matter and life. Influenced by Aristotle's theory of higher and...

philosophy Category of being, the metaphysical classification of all beings Ego (religion), spiritual or religious "beingness" Great chain of being, the rationalist...

a more traditionally Western notion of the great chain of being. As in the work of Jean Gebser, this great chain (or "nest") is ever-present while relatively...

founded the discipline known as the history of ideas with his book The Great Chain of Being (1936), on the topic of that name, which is regarded as 'probably...

refer to: Great Chain Island, situated off the east coast of Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada Great chain of being, a hierarchical structure of all matter...

whole is organized around a metaphor of human desire and frustration as manifested in the Great Chain of Being (divine, human, animal, vegetable, mineral...

"Great Chain of Being". Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 27 May 2015. Dixon, Alan. "The 'Great Chain of Being'". Inner Civilization...

The basic idea is that each planet is part of the Great Chain of Being and has a vast hierarchy of various spirits, intelligences, angels, deities, plants...

November 2018. Economist Staff (31 October 2015). "Blockchains: The great chain of being sure about things". The Economist. Archived from the original on...

the work of Carl Linnaeus and other 18th-century naturalists, a major concept of natural history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being, an arrangement...

the philosophical and existential order of creatures. This included concepts such as the great chain of being in the Western scholastic tradition, again...

affront to nature, The Bible, the great chain of being, and society. The Latin title uses the word hic, the masculine form of the demonstrative pronoun jokingly...

know God's purposes, he cannot complain about his position in the great chain of being (ll.33–34) and must accept that "Whatever is, is right" (l.292),...

as "higher vertebrates", based on the antiquated idea of the evolutionary great chain of being. The name "anamniote" is a back-formation word created...

British Science Fiction Awards. The title alludes to the great chain of being and the book consists of stories that range widely in theme and style but are...

original on 22 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016. "Blockchains: The great chain of being sure about things". The Economist. 31 October 2015. Archived from the...

Jefferson was a firm supporter of the great chain of being and an opponent of extinction, famously denying the extinction of the woolly mammoth on the grounds...

of the kinship between monkeys and humans, should be understood in the context of the late antique and medieval concept of the great chain of being....

concept of the great chain of being by proposing a causal relationship advancing up the chain as the mechanism of creation, beginning with the creation of matter...

ISBN 978-0-521-55695-8. Lovejoy, Arthur O. (31 January 1976). The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36153-9...

Aristotle's view into the idea of a great chain of being. The image of a ladder inherently suggests the possibility of climbing, but both the ancient...

and the concept of the great chain of being. He has influenced such thinkers as Stanislav Grof and Laban Coblentz. Arthur was the son of Eliza Coxe and...

formal logics of metaphysical systems, such as Platonism, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Taoism, Kabbalah, Wuxing or the great chain of being. In Zoroastrian...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 28 October 2006. Lovejoy, Arthur O. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. Harvard University...

among scholars that the Great Chain of Being is central to nearly all major religions. He also notes that the Great Chain of Being was once humanity’s dominant...

pursued the history of ideas. The first chapter of Lovejoy's book The Great Chain of Being (1936) lays out a general overview of what he intended to be...

Hinduism List of angels in theology Bearers of the Throne – Group of angels in Islam Fiery flying serpent – Biblical creature Great chain of being – Cosmological...