Related Ideas

Chain of Being.[1] in Dictionary of the History of Ideas. The Great Chain of Being is traced through the history of metaphysics, religion, and natural science.

A.O. Lovejoy. The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. 1953.

Perfectibility of Man.[2] in Dictionary of the History of Ideas. The concept of perfectibility of man is described from the æsthetic, transcendental, functional, and historical standpoints.

Plotinus.[3] in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The life and works of Plotinus are discussed with sections on his metaphysics, epistemology and ethics.

"Plotinus"[4] in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The life and writings of Plotinus are summarized with emphasis on his metaphysics, psychology, and axiology.

Great Chain of Being Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana, 1579

Notes

[1]

"Chain of Being"

[2]

"Perfectibility"

[3]

"Plotinus"

[4]

"Plotinus"