Natural philosophy

either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority of the ruler or magistrate (or to the decision of a majority), in exchange for protection of their remaining rights. The question of the relation between natural and legal rights, therefore, is often an aspect of social contract…

predominant sciences do not prove the existence of the soul. If we were to further question this we’d come across obstacles such as “Is the soul selected by natural selection?” or “Where is the soul come from based on history and…

Wordsworth, the splendor of nature was everything, straight from childhood. This can be traced even as a toddler where he was brought up in a house on the bank of a stunning but a mighty river, nature penetrated his daily life in a region of stupendous natural beauty along the Lake District of the Northern England (Hartman 87). In like manner its beauty, however, William was very conscious of the terrible power of nature, and this is evident in most of his portraits of dark, ominous mountains…

the thoughts and philosophies of people who trust existence to be non-teleological. A well-known literary exhibit of a non-teleologist is a person named John Steinbeck. Through the entirety his life Steinbeck experimented with Darwinism, transcendentalism, realism, socialism, naturalism, and Taoism (Endnotes 1). Every of these ways of wondering appears in Steinbeck’s philosophy and therefore his work cannot be one or the other. All that…

of the philosophers dedicated the bulk of a novel to discussing their interpretation of human nature. In fact, Goldman herself speaks quite extensively on her interpretation of human nature. Hobbes, Locke, and Goldman fit together nicely on the philosophy of human nature spectrum. Hobbes represents one extreme; Goldman strongly refutes Hobbes and finds herself supporting the other extreme, while Locke’s view of human nature fits somewhere in the between the two. Hobbes’ end of the spectrum…

"A philosophy of architectural design, emerging in the early 20th cent., asserting that in structure and appearance a building should be based on organic forms and should harmonize with its natural environment." — Dictionary of Architecture and Construction Organic Architecture is a style that aims to be in unison with the environment. It strives to be in harmony with nature; not dominate and destroy it. This architectural style seeks to blend in with its environment, to appear as if the house…

that strongly emphasized emotion. It also legitimized ‘individual imagination' as a major authority. Which in turn gave rise to ‘free expression' in art. With such an emphasis on feelings and imagination many thinkers of this period introduced philosophies and theologies of their own on this topic. Richard Kearney in The Wake of the Imagination, explores the various concepts of imagining from the classical to the modern. Kearney, states that the concept of "imagination" was released from its…

best known for its philosophical and scientific ideas that point back to beliefs about society or politics. Individuals, especially philosophers, advocated their beliefs through works of literature and influenced this intellectual movement towards philosophy. Voltaire, a strong advocate in many areas, disclosed his criticisms of the world through his satire Candide. Candide displays a young man, Candide, taking on the world through the lens of a metaphysician student. Candide journeys through…

considered the same way as human intrinsic values, meaning they are more susceptible to commodification. However, Mark Sagoff, an environmental philosopher and economist, disagrees with this claim, and argues in his book The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law and the Environment that the environment cannot be considered an economic good and therefore should be considered as an end in itself and be preserved. Sagoff’s views are consistent with views presented by Elizabeth Anderson with regards…

What is science? Science is a process that we use to discover new things about our world. It is, to quote The Merriam-Webster dictionary science is “knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation.” Science is realization through observation and experimentation. Science can never truly “prove” anything. All science can do is give us, as humanity, more of an idea as to what goes on in our physical world; however, everything science can…