LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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It regarded human beings as social creatures who could create meaningful lives only in association with other social beings.
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Its major premise was that every existing thing in the universe had its “place” in a divinely planned hierarchical order which was pictured as a chain, vertically extended.
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It could only be achieved through faith in God’s grace.
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Both A and B
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Detailed explanation-1: -For centuries the ‘great chain of being’ held a central place in Western thought. This view saw the Universe as ordered in a linear sequence starting from the inanimate world of rocks. Plants came next, then animals, men, angels and, finally, God.
Detailed explanation-2: -Great Chain of Being, also called Chain of Being, conception of the nature of the universe that had a pervasive influence on Western thought, particularly through the ancient Greek Neoplatonists and derivative philosophies during the European Renaissance and the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -Among the most important of the continuities with the Classical period was the concept of the Great Chain of Being. Its major premise was that every existing thing in the universe had its “place” in a divinely planned hierarchical order, which was pictured as a chain vertically extended.
Detailed explanation-4: -a construction, attributed to Greek philosopher Plato (c. 429–347 bce) and elaborated by many later philosophers, that sees creation as a continuous linked hierarchy descending from God at the top, through heavenly beings, humans, animals, and plants to nonliving matter.