Sentence examples for naturalistic views from inspiring English sources

Naturalistic views of God have required a reinterpretation of Torah in sociological terms.

At an opposite extreme, realistic and naturalistic views of literature as an exact record of social truth were developed by Vissarion Belinsky in Russia, Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola in France, and William Dean Howells in the United States.

Reductionist and naturalistic views fall into this category.

However, all significant differences reported by those authors were due to the fact that Protestants held stronger naturalistic views than agnostics and atheists.

Views which avoid ontological naturalistic views of the mind by denying that it has any physical effects will be discussed further in section 1.6 below).

A different sort of concern that arises for reductionist views (and perhaps naturalistic views as well) is that it may pose particular problems for positivism.

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

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.

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

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.