Violence is external to our nature; when, as human beings, we do err, we exorcise our sins with penitence and accountability".
These factors are largely "extrinsic", or external to the nature of the job itself.
Economists talk of "market failure", when the external costs to nature of human activities are given no monetary value.
This would be to attribute what Kant calls external purposiveness to nature — that is, to attribute purposes to God in creating nature (5:425).
While the distinction remains ultimately unclear, the key idea is that nuclear properties are part of a thing's nature, broadly construed, and extra-nuclear properties are external to a thing's nature; more precisely, nuclear properties, but not extra-nuclear properties, are part of the characterization of what the object is.
(Meinong 1972, §25) An object's nuclear properties are supposed to constitute the object's "nature", while its extranuclear properties are supposed to be external to the object's nature.
The species lacks any goal external to its own biological nature".
While heaven is presented as a willful and anthropomorphic being in the early parts of the Shangshu 尚書, it was not transcendent in the sense of being external to the system of nature.
For the Stoics, Reason or logos the essence of the world — though it underlies all things, is more strongly manifest in some (such as human life) than in others, while the virtues of stoic detachment and self-sufficiency preclude our true good being held hostage to the state of anything external to ourselves, such as nature.
Representative of this attitude is an important recent article by Guthman and Mansfield that celebrates environmental epigenetics as fundamentally undermining "the boundaries [that are] often taken for granted between what is internal and what is external to the body, between nature and nurture, and between time and space".
