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T. J. Diffey, The Republic of Art and Other Essays, in The Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1993), 250–251. Julian Young, Willing and Unwilling: A Study in the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer in International Studies in Philosophy 24 (1992), 151–152. Howard Caygill, Art of Judgement, in Philosophical Books 32 (1991), 186–187.
Locke describes the state of nature and civil society to be opposites of each other, and the need for civil society comes in part from the perpetual existence of the state of nature. [7] This view of the state of nature is partly deduced from Christian belief (unlike Hobbes, whose philosophy is not dependent upon any prior theology).
Christopher P. Long is an American academic, Professor of Philosophy and current Provost and Senior Vice President at the University of Oregon. [1] Prior to taking on this role, he was Dean of the College of Arts & Letters and the Honors College and MSU Foundation Professor at Michigan State University. [2]
Locke defines the state of nature as a condition in which humans are rational and follow natural law, in which all men are born equal and with the right to life, liberty, and property. However, when one citizen breaks the law of nature both the transgressor and the victim enter into a state of war, from which it is virtually impossible to break ...
Christopher “Kit” Heath Wellman (born February 22, 1967) is an American philosopher. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis , where he is also dean of academic planning for Arts & Sciences. [ 1 ]
Going further, the philosophical concept of nature or natures as a special type of causation - for example that the way particular humans are is partly caused by something called "human nature" is an essential step towards Aristotle's teaching concerning causation, which became standard in all Western philosophy until the arrival of modern science.
Theological aesthetics is the interdisciplinary study of theology and aesthetics, and has been defined as being "concerned with questions about God and issues in theology in the light of and perceived through sense knowledge (sensation, feeling, imagination), through beauty, and the arts". [1]
According to Steven Schafersman, naturalism is a philosophy that maintains that; "Nature encompasses all that exists throughout space and time; Nature (the universe or cosmos) consists only of natural elements, that is, of spatio-temporal physical substance – mass –energy.