Great chain of being | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-10-04

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being


00:00:52 1 Divisions
00:02:52 2 Subdivisions
00:05:54 3 The Chain
00:06:03 3.1 God
00:06:45 3.2 Angelic beings
00:08:30 3.3 Humanity
00:10:17 3.4 Animals
00:13:02 3.5 Plants
00:14:19 3.6 Minerals
00:15:44 4 Natural science
00:15:54 4.1 From Aristotle to Linnaeus
00:17:29 4.2 In alchemy
00:18:19 4.3 iScala naturae/i in evolution
00:20:19 5 Politics
00:21:26 6 Adaptations and similar concepts



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The Great Chain of Being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought in medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God. The chain starts with God and progresses downward to angels, demons (fallen/renegade angels), stars, the Moon, kings, princes, nobles, commoners, wild animals, domesticated animals, trees, other plants, precious stones, precious metals, and other minerals.The Great Chain of Being (Latin: scala naturae, "Ladder of Being") is a concept derived from Plato, Aristotle (in his Historia Animalium), Plotinus and Proclus. Further developed during the Middle Ages, it reached full expression in early modern Neoplatonism.