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Great Chain of Being
Great Chain of Being
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- Dunér, David (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Uppsala universitet,Kollegiet för avancerade studier (SCAS),Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, Lunds universitet,Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,Space Humanities,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Division of History of Ideas and Sciences,Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology,Lund University Research Groups
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Gargaud, Muriel (redaktör/utgivare)
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M. Irvine, William (redaktör/utgivare)
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Amils, Ricardo (redaktör/utgivare)
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Henderson, James (redaktör/utgivare)
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Pinti, Daniele (redaktör/utgivare)
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Cernicharo Quintanilla, José (redaktör/utgivare)
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Viso, Michel (redaktör/utgivare)
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- 2021-12-07
- 2021
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. - Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. ; 1:1, s. 1-2
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Abstract
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- A prevailing idea through the ages is that of the Great Chain of Being, understanding the universe as a hierarchy of beings, an unbroken chain of existence, from the simplest forms to the most complex ones, from non-living matter to the most rational creatures (Lovejoy 1936). In his History of Animals from the fourth century BCE, Aristotle arranged all beings in a ladder of nature, a scala naturae, a gradation of natural things from minerals, through plants and animals, to the human being. The chain of being got biological significance with, among others, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Linnaeus, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, and Charles Bonnet. Nature does not make jumps, Natura non-facit saltus, as Carl Linnaeus formulated it in Philosophia Botanica (1751). There is continuity in nature. In that respect, the Great Chain of Being is connected to the Principle of Plenitude, the fullness of being. The principle suggests that every possible form of creature exists. This could also be understood in a temporal sense that every possible form of creature, even though not existing right now, might have existed before or could be realized at some stage in the future. Continuity is an idea implicit in that of plenitude. In the early nineteenth century, this continuity of nature became understood in temporal meaning. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck went from a static concept of the series of life-forms to a theory of species transformation that life had developed over time from simpler to more complex forms. During the nineteenth century, the Great Chain of Being was replaced by another metaphor, the Tree of Life, which also stressed on the continuity of nature, but took into account the genealogy and evolution of life-forms, as in Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique (1809) and Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859).
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Idé- och lärdomshistoria (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- History of Ideas (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Filosofi (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Philosophy (hsv//eng)
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- History of Biology
- History of Science
- Philosophy of Science
- Filosofi
- Philosophy
- Astronomy
- Astronomi
- Philosophy, with specialization in history of philosophy
- Filosofi med filosofihistorisk inriktning
- Idé- och lärdomshistoria
- History of Sciences and Ideas
- History of Biology
- History of Science
- Philosophy of Science
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