ABSTRACT
The concept of Hierarchy, as well as various problems, aspects and doctrines attaching to it, was preposterously overrated in Greek philosophy, especially Platonic and Neo-platonic. The counterpart to this the authors find to be rampant in modern English-speaking philosophy dominated by the thought-style of Logical Positivism, though many of its more recent representatives would disown that label. With very slight shades of difference, all (European) languages make use of expressions like 'Higher or Lower', 'High', 'High-level', and so on in an identical sense. Whereas in physical contexts authors refer depth as a negative dimension of height, a diametrically opposite direction, in the intellectual context sometime they uses the adjective 'deep' as almost a correlate, not to say a synonym, of 'high'. According to the traditional picture, the 'Hierarchy of Values'—at some points, but by no means exactly and all along the line, corresponding to the metaphysical hierarchy of 'levels'—may be approximately ordered in about this way.
