 | 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... 19 KB (2,068 words) - 20:13, 10 March 2024 |
 | 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... 11 KB (1,272 words) - 12:21, 16 April 2024 |
Spiritual evolution (section The great chain of being) successive reincarnations (Theosophy, Hermeticism). The concept of the great chain of being developed by Plato and Aristotle whose ideas were taken up and... 25 KB (3,294 words) - 04:18, 26 April 2024 |
Gumboot Soup (redirect from The Great Chain of Being (song)) 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... 8 KB (579 words) - 21:14, 5 February 2024 |
 | 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... 49 KB (5,570 words) - 17:30, 6 April 2024 |
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 is regarded as 'probably... 17 KB (1,614 words) - 20:51, 29 January 2024 |
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... 550 bytes (115 words) - 01:06, 21 November 2023 |
whole is organized around a metaphor of human desire and frustration as manifested in the Great Chain of Being (divine, human, animal, vegetable, mineral... 30 KB (3,843 words) - 00:02, 9 December 2023 |
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... 69 KB (6,804 words) - 03:00, 15 April 2024 |
 | "Great Chain of Being". Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 27 May 2015. Dixon, Alan. "The 'Great Chain of Being'". Inner Civilization... 25 KB (2,654 words) - 12:18, 5 April 2024 |
 | Lion (color) (category Shades of yellow) king of beasts in the great chain of being, one of the bases of medieval philosophy in Western civilization. The first recorded use of lion as a color name... 1 KB (101 words) - 02:18, 9 November 2023 |
 | 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... 101 KB (8,143 words) - 07:55, 27 April 2024 |
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... 120 KB (11,941 words) - 08:05, 22 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (287 words) - 13:03, 20 September 2022 |
 | 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... 26 KB (2,868 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2024 |
 | 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),... 10 KB (1,232 words) - 03:52, 11 September 2023 |
 | 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... 54 KB (5,846 words) - 12:19, 24 April 2024 |
 | 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... 6 KB (606 words) - 02:26, 10 April 2024 |
 | 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... 4 KB (475 words) - 18:11, 19 June 2023 |
 | 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... 51 KB (5,877 words) - 12:55, 1 April 2024 |
 | 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.... 43 KB (5,185 words) - 19:45, 23 March 2024 |
 | Aristotle (redirect from Aristotle of Stagira) 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... 154 KB (16,766 words) - 20:43, 11 April 2024 |
 | 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... 106 KB (11,259 words) - 09:36, 12 April 2024 |
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... 12 KB (855 words) - 12:55, 5 January 2024 |
 | 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... 82 KB (10,083 words) - 09:50, 11 April 2024 |
A Thousand Acres (category Modern adaptations of works by William Shakespeare) generational conflict, hierarchical structures (the Great chain of being), madness, and the powerful force of nature. Larry Cook = King Lear Ginny Cook Smith... 4 KB (390 words) - 13:56, 15 December 2023 |
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... 8 KB (896 words) - 22:57, 23 February 2024 |
 | Seraph (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link) Biblical creature Great chain of being – Cosmological hierarchy of all matter and life Royal Order of the Seraphim – Swedish Order of ChivalryPages displaying... 37 KB (4,523 words) - 23:10, 5 April 2024 |
Armenoid race (category Historical definitions of race) Inhabitants of Western Asia". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 41. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain... 7 KB (792 words) - 15:15, 13 January 2024 |
 | 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... 24 KB (2,718 words) - 02:00, 20 April 2024 |