Recovering the Hierarchy of Being
On 26 February 2020, DAVID ODERBERG (University of Reading) will deliver a talk entitled “Recovering the Hierarchy of Being” for the HPP/Ian Ramsey Centre’s 2019-2020 seminar series.
The idea of the Great Chain of Being was a foundation stone of philosophy from Plato to the nineteenth century. Under the onslaught of thinkers promoting varieties of evolutionism, universal becoming, and laws of eternal progress, the idea disappeared from mainstream thought, retreating into the corners of esotericism. The idea, however, deserves reappraisal. Rechristening it more prosaically as the idea of a hierarchy of being, and pruning it of its wilder and less plausible offshoots, we find a metaphysical concept that has much to commend it, deserving serious reconsideration and perhaps even reinstatement at the core of sound philosophy.
Date:
26 February 2020, 17:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2020)
Venue:
Blackfriars, St Giles OX1 3LY
Venue Details:
Main Aula
Speaker:
DAVID ODERBERG (University of Reading)
Organising department:
Faculty of Theology and Religion
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://www.ianramseycentre.info/events
Audience:
Public
Editors:
Frances Roach,
Zsofia Lehel
