Sentence examples for a naturalistic view from inspiring English sources

Early treatment of mental illness was based on either a religio-magical or a naturalistic view of disease.

A reaction set in against the arts faculty's increasing disposition to take a naturalistic view of all reality.

He defends a naturalistic view of methodology and is skeptical of prescriptions that are not based on detailed knowledge.

This is a feature crucial to the theological approach, which would clearly be rejected by Hume in favor of a naturalistic view of human nature and a reliance on our sympathetic engagement with others, an approach anticipated by Shaftesbury (below).

The first thing to be said is that the fact that a naturalistic view of the universe implies that the universe must be tragic or absurd, if correct, would itself be an important and interesting conclusion.

If one believes that our theoretical evidence favors atheism, then it seems plausible to hold that one ought to maintain a naturalistic view, even if it is practically undesirable that the world have such a character.

In addition, we assessed the correlation patterns in 11 of these participants during a naturalistic viewing condition in which participants were instructed to attend to a movie, but maintain fixation on a centrally presented dot.

Gray rejects all three of these beliefs, along with the pretension of humanism to offer a scientifically respectable replacement for religion: "In a strictly naturalistic view — one in which the world is taken on its own terms, without reference to a creator or any spiritual realm — there is no hierarchy of value with humans somewhere near the top.

The Epicureans and Stoics adopted a more naturalistic view of music and its function, which they accepted as an adjunct to the good life.

For these purposes it is perhaps enough if Quine can sketch an account, compatible with his naturalistic view, of how we might acquire the knowledge which we take ourselves to have, whether or not it is correct in detail.

A glare of white sunlight gives an unreal intensity to this would-be naturalistic view which is profoundly romantic.