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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea Arthur O. Lovejoy
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Oct 31, 2013 - Every subject alternatively becomes “noone and everyone” because all essentialist identities (the Great Chain of Being where everyone has a place and function) are eroded under capitalism. Apr 27, 2011 - The great chain of being is not a desiccated, fossilized idea, a mere subject of scholarly study whose influence has vanished totally from the world. May 23, 2014 - During the suspension of the old governments in America, both prior to, and at the break out of hostilities, I was struck with the order and decorum with which everything was conducted; and impressed with the idea, that a little more than The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all the parts of a civilized community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together… . Mar 31, 2014 - Jeremy Davies is Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds; prior to taking up this post in 2011, he studied and taught at Cambridge, Glasgow and Queen Mary. How do we know the dinosaurs weren't the last race of mutated overgrown humans who thought it was a good idea to split atoms to boil water. Why did Coleridge suggest that he'd achieved an intellectual breakthrough by 'metaphysicizing on Pain', or – much later – argue that pain helps knit together the great chain of being by reinforcing a polarity between the subjective and the objective? From an economic, quantitative point Well you get the idea. For the first time in history, universality is genuinely introduced as concrete universality insofar as everyone can equally be measured by the abstract dollar, thereby evacuating all identity (cf. 6 days ago - The fascinating history we touch upon echoes back to the crude use of the erythema dose concept, the results of consuming liquid sunshine, and the revelations provided by Mueller in 1927 fruit fly studies which Tie this knowledge back to the Pacific Ocean which is now being eternally contaminated by Tepco.Japan. Jan 22, 2014 - Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.” ..