Are human beings just a small world within a hierarchy, or are they individuals who were created to be great, intelligent, and one with God? A hierarchy is the process of classifying individuals and/or objects above and below each other, according to their superiority to one another. A continuum is a comparison of similar beings that are different by degree and compared based on their quantitative difference. The Great Chain of Being, which consists of having both a hierarchy and continuum, would suggest that human beings are just a part of a hierarchy, where they are inferior to those who are higher up, which would make those superior to humans. Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, the author of, “The Dignity of Man”, suggests that God, who is all-powerful
