Theories of stratification spread over a wide range of disciplines during the first half of the 20th century: From ethics and philosophical anthropology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis, and from sociology to art and literature studies, theorists of stratification aimed to grasp and visualize the world and the human being, human biological and mental development, social organization and creations as parts of one integrated visual scheme of 'layers.'
Prior to the 20th Century, one of the most common ways of seeing the world was through the lens of stratification, which is the idea that the natural world comes in different scales or layers.
Christian scholars merged Aristotle's scales of nature with the supernatural world of demons, angels, and God to give us 'the Great Chain of Being.'
At the bottom are the layers of hell, where we find the Devil, demons, and the damned. Then, we move into the natural world and up through Aristotle's scales.
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