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...
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Spiritual evolution (section The great chain of being)
successive reincarnations (Theosophy, Hermeticism). The concept of the Great Chain of Being was developed by Plato and Aristotle whose ideas were taken up...
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Ken Wilber (category University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni)
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...
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Gumboot Soup (redirect from The Great Chain of Being (song))
that he worked through the Christmas period of 2017 to complete the album before the end of the year. Four of the track's songs would be released as promotional...
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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...
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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...
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Taxonomy (biology) (redirect from Systems of zoological classification)
the philosophical and existential order of creatures. This included concepts such as the great chain of being in the Western scholastic tradition, again...
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Bitcoin (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from November 2023)
November 2018. Economist Staff (31 October 2015). "Blockchains: The great chain of being sure about things". The Economist. Archived from the original on...
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"Great Chain of Being". Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 27 May 2015. Dixon, Alan. "The 'Great Chain of Being'". Inner Civilization...
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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...
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Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (category Presidents of the American Association of University Professors)
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 has been described as...
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Islamic views on evolution (redirect from Islamic views of evolution)
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...
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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...
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whole is organized around a metaphor of human desire and frustration as manifested in the Great Chain of Being (divine, human, animal, vegetable, mineral...
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Anamniotes (section History of discovery)
as "higher vertebrates", based on the antiquated idea of the evolutionary great chain of being. The name "anamniote" is a back-formation word created...
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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),...
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Muqaddimah (section History of the Muqaddimah)
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....
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Natural history (category History of biology)
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...
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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...
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Religious cosmology (redirect from Relation of the Universe to God)
formal logics of metaphysical systems, such as Platonism, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Taoism, Kabbalah, Wuxing or the great chain of being. In Zoroastrian...
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tenets of all holons. Wilber calls the holistic version of the Great Chain of Being the "Great Nest of Spirit", because this account emphasizes that higher...
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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...
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Aristotle's biology (redirect from Biology of Aristotle)
forming the scala naturae or great chain of being. His system had eleven grades, arranged according to the potentiality of each being, expressed in their form...
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Extinction (redirect from Loss of species)
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...
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Blockchain (redirect from Block chain)
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...
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of its empirical verification. Leibniz believed that the best of all possible worlds would actualize every genuine possibility. Great chain of being Meinong's...
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Aristotle (redirect from Aristotle of Stagira)
ISBN 978-0-674-00261-6. 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...
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Macbeth (character) (redirect from The Character of Macbeth)
brightest fell". The similarities of the Devil and Macbeth are that Macbeth wanted to rise up the Great Chain of Being but, in trying, became the most hated...
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Seraph (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025)
Group of angels in Islam Fiery flying serpent – Biblical creature Great chain of being – Medieval Christian hierarchy of living beings Royal Order of the...
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also find rough correlations with the concepts of the great chain of being and Aurobindo's elaboration of the five sheaths or koshas in Hindu thought. Wilber's...
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