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	Peter Suber, "The Great Chain of Being"
		The chain in its entirety represents all degrees of perfection from the highest and fullest to the lowest and least; it is complete.
		The bottom of the chain represents the least possible perfection, which is nothingness (as opposed to evil).
		Dependent beings, therefore, depend on more perfect causes than themselves, which in turn depend on more perfect causes themselves, and so on, until the series comes to an end with the most perfect, uncaused (or self-caused), independent being, which is at the top of the chain.
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/courses/re/chain.htm (0 words)

	History of Medicine: Temporalizing the great chain of being
		Hereditary tales: contingency and narrativity versus the chain of being
		Inversions of the chain of being: Schelling and Ritter
		The chain of being, from Charles Bonnet, Œuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie, 1779-83
	www.hps.cam.ac.uk /medicine/greatchain.html (351 words)

	Ken Wilber Online: Excerpt G - Toward A Comprehensive Theory of Subtle Energies
		The general idea is of a great holarchy of being and knowing, with the levels of reality in the "outer" world reflected in the levels of self (or levels of "interior" knowing and being), which is particularly suggested by figure 3.
		Since we are at this point focusing on individual beings, we have this: increasing evolution brings increasing complexity of gross form (in the UR), which is correlated with an increasing degree of consciousness (in the UL), and, in the UR itself, a subtilization of corresponding energies.
		Thus, instead of interpreting higher levels as being essentially divorced from gross matter or gross form, the complexification of gross form is the vehicle of manifestation for both subtler energies and greater consciousness.
	wilber.shambhala.com /html/books/kosmos/excerptG/part1.cfm (3466 words)

	Great chain of being - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The great chain of being or scala naturae is a classical and western medieval conception of the order of the universe, whose chief characteristic is a strict hierarchical system.
		The chain of being is composed of a great number of hierarchal links, from the most basic and foundational elements up through the very highest perfection, in other words, God, or the Prime Mover.
		Solidifying the king's position at the top of humanity's food chain is the doctrine of the divine right of kings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_chain_of_being (889 words)

	DarwinianMurder - Wik-Ed - a Wikia wiki
		==Proposition== Bottom-up (Darwinian) causation obviates Top-Down causation (the Great Chain of Being).
		===Argument 2.=== The “great chain of being” was a postulated top-down causal chain.
		The “great chain of being” [[5]] was a medieval top-down causal chain.
	pov.wikia.com /wiki/DarwinianMurder (1384 words)

	metaphorik.de 08/2005 - Musolff, Genetic information as part of the 'Great Chain of Being'
		Great Chain in 19th-20th century thinking perverted into a “kind of collective vanity”, the “tragic outcome” of which had “been seen, and experienced, by all of us in our own time”; and he held one strand of (German) Romanticism, as the “belief in the sanctity of one’s idiosyncrasy”, responsible for this distortion (1936:313).
		Great Chain of Being concept complex from the racist phantasms of, and genocidal implementation by, the Nazis was the latter’s implicit rejection of one of the constituent principles of the
		Great Chain of Being – i.e., the principle that the universe was complete and everything in it was necessary – became irrelevant in the combat scenario of Nazi ideology.
	www.metaphorik.de /08/musolff.htm (6875 words)

	Tillyard and the Chain of Being (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Being superior in quality to inert rock and soil, the plants had divine sanction to draw sustenance from them, and grow upon them, while the minerals and soil supported them.
		Every being in creation was thought to have its place within this Chain, which entailed a certain degree of authority and a certain degree of responsibility to the rest of the Chain.
		The belief in the Chain of Being meant that monarchy was ordained by God and inherent in the very structure of the universe.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/Tillyard01.html (1883 words)

	Assignment on Aristotle on the "Great Chain of Being"
		Assignment on Aristotle on the "Great Chain of Being"
		The Great Chain of Being as described by Aristotle was adapted to the religious doctrine of Christianity through time to the early modern era as describing the fixity of the natural world.
		The chain was later used to show how the ladder was fit into the religious aspect of hierarchy as well as the political classes of humanity.
	www.paperadepts.com /paper/Aristotle_on_the_Great_Chain_-173489.html (187 words)

	Life Technology™ News.
		He knows that he is part of a great chain of being, an organic state where he is linked to all others in the country from the lowest worker to the Pharoah himself.
		The great unity of Egypt was its sustaining vision, its essence not only found in the state or political structure or in the priesthood, but within every aspect of its expression, from art to architecture, from music to medicine.
		This Great Chain of Being is the traditional view of the universe that is not locked in a simple "nuts and bolts" view, but which encompasses the great span of existence from the very heights of spirit to the depths of the infernal realms.
	www.lifetechnology.org /blog/2006/10/schwaller-de-lubicz.html (1818 words)

	PopeTheodicy
		Pope argues that, because human beings are part of a chain of being, to try to be something we are not is to break the chain and bring it crashing down.
		The Great Chain of Being: the belief that all creation is connected in a great hierarchy, from the most finite to the infinite, in a continuous chain of all creatures, beginning at the bottom with inanimate matter and ascending all the way to infinite divinity (i.e., God).
		Humans beings were often conceived as being at the center of the chain, for they shared in the sensate and physical functions assigned to animals, as well as the rational, spiritual functions assigned to angels.
	www.dbu.edu /mitchell/popetheo.htm (1158 words)

	"Links in the Great Chain of Being" by Sarah Belle Dougherty
		This interlocking universe represents the Chain of Being in modern guise, but as a series of three-dimensional networks rather than a single chain.
		Being a link in this cosmic chain gives a dazzling sweep to who we are, where we are, and where we are going.
		Our present understanding of the Great Chain of Being reflects not only the slowly evolving consciousness of humanity as a whole, but also the insights we each experience in our personal explorations of universal life and cosmic being.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sunrise/53-03-4/hi-sbd2.htm (957 words)

	History of ideas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aside from his students and colleagues engaged in related projects (such as René Wellek and Leo Spitzer, with whom Lovejoy engaged in extended debates), scholars such as Isaiah Berlin, Michel Foucault, Christopher Hill, J.G.A. Pocock and others have continued to work in a spirit close to that with which Lovejoy pursued the history of ideas.
		The first chapter/lecture of Lovejoy's book on the "Great Chain of Being" lays out a general overview of what is intended (or at least what he intended) to be program and scope of the study of the history of ideas.
		As Lovejoy saw it, the historian of ideas had the task of identifying such unit-ideas and of describing their historical emergence and recession in new forms and combinations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_ideas (503 words)

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	The Great Chain Of Being (Richard Rohr)
		After ten years of touching and being touched by so many lives, after a decade of "weaving the seamless garment," "mending the breach," reconstruction, and searching for common ground, we are reclaiming a medieval Catholic metaphor to both name our past and direct our future: the great chain of being.
		The great chain of being was the first holistic metaphor for the new seeing offered us by the Incarnation: Jesus as the living icon of integration, "the coincidence of opposites" who "holds all things in unity" within himself (Colossians 1:15-20).
		The chain of being is even longer and bigger than we church folks imagined -- and we had best come to the telescope and microscope with our shoes off and ready to live the emptiness of not knowing.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/2615.htm (1881 words)

	A Critical Look at Ken Wilber's Four Quadrant Model, by Thomas J McFarlane
		A central teaching of the perennial philosophy is that reality is a great chain of being, extending from the most real, true, and perfect transcendental Being at the top, down through the subtler levels of being, to the least real, most transitory and imperfect gross levels of being at the bottom.
		Although the hierarchy in the “I” quadrant of his model includes all the levels of knowing in the great chain, the hierarchy in the “IT” quadrant of Wilber’s model is not the traditional hierarchy of being at all.
		Thus, the levels of being in the true great chain of being include not just the gross, physical levels of matter and their increasingly complex degrees of organization, but also the subtle and transcendental levels of being.
	www.integralscience.org /wilber.html (2731 words)

	How We Think or The Great Chain of Being
		In the Great Chain of Being, the Queen is the highest ranking or highest link in the chain here on Earth in England.
		She, in turn, is but a link in that portion of the Chain held by Princes of the Body.
		One of the comforting things about the relationships between those in the Great Chain is the knowledge that you will be cared for when you can no longer care for yourself.
	www.guildofstgeorge.com /chain.htm (1125 words)

	Chain of Being
		This chain, or hierarchy, of beings is visualized as stretching as it were from the Throne of God to the very center of the earth.
		Hell alone (because it had rebelled from the order of things) was not connected to this chain, yet the vision of Dante, resting as it did upon the redemptive thesis of theology, embraced even Hell in his view of the chain.
		The Great Chain of Being and Italian Phenomenology.
	www.occultopedia.com /c/chain_of_being.htm (973 words)

	How We Think or The Great Chain of Being
		In the Great Chain of Being, the Queen is the highest ranking or highest link in the chain here on Earth in England.
		She, in turn, is but a link in that portion of the Chain held by Princes of the Body.
		One of the comforting things about the relationships between those in the Great Chain is the knowledge that you will be cared for when you can no longer care for yourself.
	guildofstgeorge.com /chain.htm (1125 words)

	"Re-Linking Science and Religion" by Nancy Coker (review of "The Marriage of Sense and Soul" by Ken Wilber)
		Arthur Lovejoy wrote early last century that the Great Chain of Being was "probably the most widely familiar conception of the general scheme of things, of the constitutive pattern of the universe" (The Great Chain of Being, p.
		The upside to the modern scientific perspective is the ability to differentiate various links of the Chain of Being (which helped usher in a much more democratic, less exclusive and oppressive way of life), but the downside is that it declared valid only the bottom link which could be accessed and verified by the senses.
		Finally, the author suggests that in order to reinvigorate in our lives the idea of the Great Chain, science must learn to investigate and apprehend inner as well as outer domains common to human experience, and that religion must be willing to look more toward spiritual experience and less towards its own dogmas.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/science/sc-ncok.htm (2271 words)

	homework help: how did The Great Chain of Being affect the roles of society? - Help.com
		The great chain of being or scala naturæ is a classical and western medieval conception of the order of the universe, whose chief characteristic is a strict hierarchical system.
		It is a conception of the world's structure that was accepted, and unquestioned, by most educated men from the time of Lucretius until the Copernican and Darwinian revolution and the ultimate flowering of the Renaissance.
		The chain of being is composed of a great number of hierarchal links, from the most basic and foundational elements up through the very highest perfection, in other words, God, or the Prime Mover.
	help.com /post/21679-how-did-the-great-chain-of-being-af (978 words)

	Was the King James Version translation influenced by racism? - at BibleStudy.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thank you for question about the influence of the idea of the chain of being on the development of racism in England in the early modern period (c.
		There was tension historically in applying the idea of the chain of being to the natural world, and humans in it from a Christian viewpoint.
		The chain of being concept implies that there are no gaps in the overall chain, but that something fills each would-be "spot" or link along it, without any huge change from species to species or category to category along it.
	www.biblestudy.org /question/chnbeing.html (1540 words)

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		A philosophical concept that can be compared to a food chain is that of the Great Chain of Being, an idea explored by Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), a Christian theologian and philosopher who held that the truths of faith complement those of reason.
		A key difference, however between the Great Chain of Being and a food chain is how far the “chain of command” or authority extends.
		Just as the content of the two chains is different, so are the ripple effects that are possible in each.
	www.cbc.ca /newsinreview/sept98/ice/chain.htm (440 words)

	Aquinas' Argument from Gradation
		There are degrees of being is different things--the more being, the more goodness (the Great Chain of Being is assumed).
		For there to be degrees of being at all there must be something which has being in the highest degree.
		The Great Chain of Being: extends from unformed inorganic matter to man to God.
	philosophy.lander.edu /intro/gradation.html (232 words)

	ISKCON Communications Journal - Modern Historical Consciousness - Ravindra Svarupa Dasa
		The eventual collapse of the great chain of being - which Frederick Nietzsche later described as the 'murder of God' - was an immense and revolutionary change in consciousness, which was so profound that modern Westerners now have to approach their not-so-distant past as something completely foreign and strange.
		Retaining its sequential hierarchical structure, the chain became temporalised; its axis was no longer the vertical, ontological axis from chaos to God but a horizontal axis from the primitive chaos of the past to present human development and the future progression towards greater and greater perfection.
		This transposition of the axis of the chain of being is the origin of modern historical consciousness.
	www.iskcon.com /icj/1_2/12rsd.html (3652 words)

	"Oneness and the Great Chain of Being" by Alan E. Donant
		Every mathematical point in every dimension of space, inner and outer, is an evolving consciousness, so that from the grandest to the most infinitesimal we see a great chain of being.
		If we admit that only Oneness exists, separate beings can only be reflections of the One passing through conditioned existence, like the many colors visible when sunlight passes through a prism.
		For instance, we do not recognize a table as a being, though a wooden table may be thought of as formed from the body of a being.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sunrise/53-03-4/hi-aed.htm (1569 words)

	Evolving Thoughts: The not-so-Great Chain
		It is a short comment by Stephen Nee on the tendency of evolutionary thinkers to reinvent or reassert the Great Chain of Being, a view of life first substantially and clearly expressed by historian of ideas, E. Lovejoy in 1936.
		I sometimes suspect that scientists are so keen to see the Great Chain in biology because it underpins their belief that science is likewise progressive.
		Lovejoy, A. The great chain chain of being: a study of the history of an idea.
	evolvethought.blogspot.com /2005/06/not-so-great-chain.html (574 words)

	Pharyngula: The Great Chain of Being's Deadly Legacy
		The Chain of Being be damned, this is a screed as scary as Hitler reborn.
		Wilkins got this notion from (and fails to give credit to) Lovejoy's 'Great Chain of Being,' a book still in print not because it's accurate, but because it tells us what we want to hear, that we are atop a hierarchy of understanding while our predecessors were superstitious cretins down at the bottom.
		Great writers from Pico to Shakespeare used the Great Chain of Being as a trope in their writing, but no major work from the Reanaissance to the early Enlightenment read in its entirety supports the notion that this was a formal principle of THINKING.
	scienceblogs.com /pharyngula/2006/08/the_great_chain_of_beings_dead.php (1944 words)

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