POLS 1150 Lecture 3: Week 03 - Ideology-Socialism
31 Jul 2015
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September 28, 2012: society as an organic hierarchy: the great chain of being. David wooton on the great chain of being, the order of feudal society: According to this theory the universe consisted of a series of hierarchies. In heaven there was god and below him a descending series of angelic beings. In the skies there was the sun, and below it a descending series of planets. In the animal kingdom the king of beasts, the lion, stood atop a descending series of beasts. In the political order the king ruled over a descending series of authorities reaching down to village constables and churchwardens. In the microcosm of man"s body the head ruled over the hierarchy of the organs. Everywhere, order was associated with hierarchy, and each ordered system was comparable so that a network of correspondences could be drawn, establishing a more than metaphorical link between god, the sun, the king, the head and the lion.
