Hierarchy in Transcendent Systems

Throughout history, transcendent systems have established a hierarchy with one mode of being considered superior and the other subservient. This pattern is evident in various philosophical and religious frameworks like Plato's world of forms, the concept of God in Abrahamic religions, and Kant's distinction between things in themselves and human experience. Deleuze highlights the arbitrary nature of this hierarchy, emphasizing that there is no inherent reason for one substance to be superior to the other.