Sentence examples for purpose of nature from inspiring English sources

She notes that the ancient Greek philosophers debated man's inherent right to dominate nature, but thinkers quickly confused "our ability to alter natural conditions with proof that the very purpose of nature was to minister to our cause".

For this we need to appeal, not to natural, but to moral, teleology, and in particular to the idea (itself belonging not to natural, but to moral teleology) of man as final purpose of nature.

Culture is the ultimate purpose of nature because it prepares man for what he must do in order to be the final purpose of nature (§83, 431).

See also Cohen's (2006) discussion of the relation between Kant's views on the generation of organisms and his conception of the final purpose of nature.

Although natural teleology cannot prove the existence of God, it nonetheless has a positive role to play with respect to religion and morality, in that it leads us to ask what the final purpose of nature is, and relatedly, to inquire into the attributes of God as author of nature.

While experience does not allow us to identify either nature's ultimate purpose or its final purpose, Kant argues on a priori grounds that the final purpose of nature can only be man considered as a moral subject, that is, considered as having the supersensible ability to choose purposes freely (§84, 435).

The board agreed to maintain the land "in its present state... for purposes of nature study and general conservation only".

Natural products (animals and their parts, plants, and the four elements) move, grow, change, and reproduce themselves by inner final causes; they are driven by purposes of nature.

Calabrese and Baldwin (2002) attempted a fairly comprehensive definition of the nature and underlying biological purpose of hormesis in nature, settling on hormesis as an adaptive response.

A nature reserve differs from a national park usually in being smaller and having as its sole purpose the protection of nature.

Thus, the Timaeus has in all its parts as its purpose the explanation of nature (physiologia).