HIST1001 Lecture 28: Lecture #28 11.30 (W)
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Early modern and the great chain of being. Aristotle"s hierarchy of souls: classified all human beings, plants to animals, he separates humans from nature. They are sensible, rational beings that separate them from other animals. St. thomas aquinas: he added angels to the hierarchy. God on top, then angel"s, humans, then animals. God is at the top of all the social hierarchy. Picture with a chain of people and beings that are interconnected. They are all connected through the hierarchy and they cannot exist without each other: includes rocks, dirt, animals etc, ranks how they are considered within the hierarchical souls. Established binomial nomenclature: separated out by kingdoms kept shifting things around and reordering them in the order of what was most important. Leads to the questioning of mans own origin and where they fit in the social hierarchy: originally classified as anthropomorphic. Put them at the top of the primate class.
