Sentence examples for naturalist views from inspiring English sources

Similar considerations motivate ontologically naturalist views of the biological realm, the social realm, and so on.

Ontological naturalist views of the type discussed are for these and related reasons seen as problematic, and are consequently unpopular.

By contrast, naturalist views do face a particular difficulty in giving an account of a value that is genuinely unitary.

We shall return to the question of whether there are any further reasons for ontologically naturalist views about causally non-efficacious categories in sections 1.7 and 1.8 below.

As a replacement for organized religion, he espoused a mixture of deism, Spinoza's naturalist views, and precursors of Transcendentalism, with man acting as a free agent within the natural world.

At any rate, you can't, in the end, make yourself at home in the naturalist view of things.

"Blood Meridian" offers you two ways to think about its apocalypse: on the one hand, you might think of war and bloodshed as part of the reality of nature (the naturalist view); on the other, you might think of it as evil.

He defended natural religion against the naturalist view that nature constitutes a self-sufficient system and revealed religion against deism.

Of course, some naturalists may contend that a substantive naturalist view must treat epistemic facts as supervening on causal rather than logical facts.

But then any naturalist view pushes us toward value-monism, or toward the view that only one kind of state is good.

And at this point the causal closure argument will bite once more, to show that a non-natural intuitive faculty would inevitably commit us to the absurdity of strong overdetermination.[13] In the face of this kind of difficulty, most contemporary moral philosophers have turned away from moral non-naturalism and opted for some species of naturalist view.