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2020
Mehigan and Banki examine the most important features of Goethe’s nature philosophy. As they contend, Goethe’s thought, though highly reflective, eschews the directly philosophical in its desire to penetrate more deeply into nature than had been possible in any previous philosophy or organized form of thought. Thus, while Goethe’s outlook has Platonic,
Mehigan, Tim, Banki Peter
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Mehigan and Banki examine the most important features of Goethe’s nature philosophy. As they contend, Goethe’s thought, though highly reflective, eschews the directly philosophical in its desire to penetrate more deeply into nature than had been possible in any previous philosophy or organized form of thought. Thus, while Goethe’s outlook has Platonic,
Mehigan, Tim, Banki Peter
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Natural Philosophy in the Constitution
Science, 1986The natural philosophers who wrote the U.S. social contract held the advancement of science to be the supreme exercise of citizen sovereignty. The rising nation, in the late 19th century, established the seat of that sovereignty in its universities. Today those institutions have come to be regarded as contract research centers at the service of the ...
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2015
This essay examines how Protestant natural philosophers incorporated theology into their study of nature. It focuses in particular on the impact of Lutheran beliefs, which have tended to receive less attention than seventeenth-century British Puritanism.
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This essay examines how Protestant natural philosophers incorporated theology into their study of nature. It focuses in particular on the impact of Lutheran beliefs, which have tended to receive less attention than seventeenth-century British Puritanism.
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Natural philosophy: Traditional natural philosophy
1988The natural philosophy of the Renaissance was far from being a homogeneous body of knowledge uniformly accepted and taught in the universities. As one might expect during a rebirth of learning, new views of nature and of man's place in nature took their place alongside those of classical antiquity then being rediscovered and explored for a wisdom long ...
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Physics, philosophy, and the nature of reality
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2015Both science and philosophy have been characterized as seeking to understand the nature of reality. They are sometimes even pitted against each other, suggesting that the success of science undermines the relevance of philosophy. But attending to the sort of understanding or explanation being sought offers a different picture: contemporary physics as ...
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Naturalism and the Naturalization of Philosophy
2013One of the most characteristic features of contemporary philosophy is the lack of consensus as to just what philosophy is. The discussion regarding the nature of philosophy has become more intense in the last few decades. “Metaphilosophy” has appeared on the scene alongside traditional disciplines such as metaphysics and epistemology (Moser & Mulder ...
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Nature of Philosophy and Philosophy of Nature: Henrich Steffens’ “enhanced” Naturalism
2022With one eye on his sources and another on his production, in this contribution we would like to present Henrich Steffens' philosophy as an “enhanced” naturalism. After explaining the meaning of this definition, we will examine some topical places in Steffens' philosophical, political, and psychological-anthropological production.
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1977
Whitehead’s philosophy of nature is largely presented in his books An Enquiry concerning Natural Knowledge (PNK) and The Concept of Nature (CN), and to some extent in The Principle of Relativity (P of R), although the latter is also concerned with his theory of relativity.
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Whitehead’s philosophy of nature is largely presented in his books An Enquiry concerning Natural Knowledge (PNK) and The Concept of Nature (CN), and to some extent in The Principle of Relativity (P of R), although the latter is also concerned with his theory of relativity.
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2006
Abstract During the 12th century, certain questions came into focus and inspired speculation about the heavens and the earth, namely, “mobile being”. In other words, nature was “discovered” in the 12th century. It is in the wake of this discovery that, in the 1250s, Bonaventure developed his view of the created world while commenting on ...
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Abstract During the 12th century, certain questions came into focus and inspired speculation about the heavens and the earth, namely, “mobile being”. In other words, nature was “discovered” in the 12th century. It is in the wake of this discovery that, in the 1250s, Bonaventure developed his view of the created world while commenting on ...
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