Natural philosophy

A study compared the mental health of 100 people who moved from city landscapes to greener, more natural settings and those who relocated in the reverse direction. The data showed that those who relocated to settings with a higher exposure to nature were found to be happier during the three years that their mental health was recorded. Positivity around nature has been recorded for decades. Many people express their views through writing poetry, essays, and songs. John Muir and William Wordsworth…

Francis Hutchison was a professor of Moral Philosophy and his views help Adam Smith to develop his personal beliefs. Adam Smith graduated in 1740 and won a scholarship to Oxford. He returned to his home and gave a series of public lectures in Edinburgh. The lectures varied from rhetoric, history and economics. In 1751, Smith was appointed Professor of Logic at Glasgow, but later transferred to Moral Philosophy. Moral Philosophy was about natural theology, ethics, jurisprudence and political…

The source of this duty, he says, is natural law. To tie this into the property portion of Locke’s points, he’s saying people have the right to goods by adding their labour to that good, thus claiming ownership (Locke, 28). This right goes for all sorts of things according to Locke, including…

In the Ancient Greek period, political philosophy already emerged in the minds of different philosophers. It is the study of topics such as politics, justice, property, state, rights and legal code authority. That could possibly be the reason why this issue continued to emerge until the 20th century. In the Ancient Greek period, Plato argued that political philosophy has a deep connection with moral philosophy. According to him, different classes of the state are most likely to be different…

edited by Halvor Eifering, begins with a definition of qíng as “emotions” or “passions” by most scholar. However, recently, two philosophies have a debate on the meaning of qíng in Chinese fourth through second centuries. First philosophy named Graham believe qíng means “essential qualities” and not “passions” which is supported by a book named Xunzi. Second philosophy, Chad Hansen, believes that qíng means “reality feedback” or “reality input” supported by a book named Huainanzi. The author of…

The promoter of Social Darwinism was a 19th century philosopher by the name of Herbert Spencer. Social Darwinism is a spin off of the theory of natural selection which was created by Charles Darwin. Social Darwinism covers all aspects of life, including economics, political, and social issues. While Charles Darwin intended natural selection to be about survival of the fittest of things in nature, Herbert Spencer used Social Darwinism to also include survival of the fittest of people in…

certain architectural spaces? How do we find contentment in them? In this book, Origins of Architectural Pleasure, Grant Hildebrand suggested that the current artificial environment fabricated by human is largely related to the archetypal qualities in natural settings and the human’s needs since the origin of our species. The book is separated into four chapters and each chapter proposed new terms to describe human’s pleasure in certain settings, which originated from the living habit of our…

(Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 2017) And then proceeds later in the document to establish the four goals that the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department employs to conserve the state: 1) Practice, Encourage And Enable Science-based Stewardship of Natural And Cultural Resources 2) Increase Access to and Participation in the Outdoors 3) Educate, Inform & Engage Texas Citizens In Support Of Conservation & Recreation 4) Employ Efficient, Sustainable And Sound Business Practices. Under each of…

it is not a set fact, but a hypothesis supported by a large amount of evidence, and is widely accepted. But there are still many who oppose it with their substitute being Intelligent Design. Evolution is the theory that traits are selected through natural selection, and that the more successful individuals will have more offspring and pass their unique trait down. The idea of Intelligent Design is that all species were created by an intelligent being, be it a god or extra-terrestrials.…

Human Nature” is an article written to oppose human nature. Specifically, it challenges human evolution as the cause of universality/commonality of human traits. The case made in the article utilizes the logic behind Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection: evolutionary changes come via the generation of variation in each generation and differential survival of individuals with different combinations of these varying traits. The central thesis of “On Human Nature” is that any common…