Natural Philosophy
Origins #5: Natural Philosophy within Christianity
Monday, February 18th, 2008Original July 7, 2007.
In the course of the history of Christianity, Greek and Roman philosophy has always been close by as part of the culture. And often it influenced language and thought. In Late Antiquity the ancient philosophies were still being interpreted and practiced by the pagan schools and stood literally side by side with [...]
Origins #4: Creation Science as Natural Philosophy
Monday, February 18th, 2008The term “Creation Science” refers to a body of work started in the late 1950s that started as an attempt to gather new natural observational evidence or interpret existing evidence according to a specific historical world view. This historical world view is based upon a literal reading of the creation account contained in the biblical [...]
Origins #3: Darwinism (Evolution) as Natural Philosophy
Monday, February 18th, 2008Original: July 3, 2007.
In the first two posts I have proposed that there is a basic distinction between experimental science in the strict sense, based upon the scientific method of repeatable experiment, and Natural Philosophy, which is a structured systematic description of the nature of the cosmos that may rely on at least some untestable [...]
Origins #2: Specific Brief Examples of Natural PhilosophyThe last post was introductory in nature and generalized to the point of being somewhat obscure. So in this post, I will become more specific by looking at three examples of Natural Philosophy from antiquity.
Monday, February 18th, 2008The last post was introductory in nature and generalized to the point of being somewhat obscure. So in this post, I will become more specific by looking at three examples of Natural Philosophy from antiquity.
Among the Greeks in antiquity there was a school of philosophy called the Stoics.[1] Among the primary divisions of Stoic teachings [...]
Origins #1: Natural Philosophy and Modern Science
Monday, February 18th, 2008Original: July 2, 2007.
The first entry in this blog referred to a category of thought historically known as Natural Philosophy and relates it to the work of Philip Melanchthon, one of the most important figures in sixteenth century European education and the Lutheran reformation.
Natural Philosophy in the history of ideas goes back to ancient Greece [...]
