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	Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism
		From this point of view it is natural that each sphere of existence should have its own separate group of studies connected with it; it is even natural that the growth of scientific studies should be viewed with suspicion as marking a tendency of materialistic philosophy to encroach upon the domain of spirit.
		Naturally, this application of physical science (which was the most conspicuously perceptible one) strengthened the claims of professed humanists that science was materialistic in its tendencies.
		The philosophic dualism between man and nature is reflected in the division of studies between the naturalistic and the humanistic with a tendency to reduce the latter to the literary records of the past.
	www.johndeweyphilosophy.com /books/democracy_and_education/Physical_and_Social_Studies-Naturalism_and_Humanism.html (4391 words)

	Naturalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Naturalism (philosophy): the view that nothing exists but the natural universe, either methodologically or ontologically — that there are no supernatural entities or at least no observations that show them to exist.
		Natural history: a broad area of the natural sciences concerned with living things.
		Sociological naturalism: the view that the natural world and the social world are roughly identical and governed by similar principles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naturalism (182 words)

	Murry
		Murry’s proposal, and it’s a good one, is for religious humanists to maintain their rational and scientific rigor, but to discover (or perhaps rediscover) the spiritual and emotional depths inherent in naturalism, as for instance expressed in Ursula Goodenough’s The Sacred Depths of Nature and Chet Raymo’s Skeptics and True Believers.
		Naturalism also rejects the idea that a human being consists of a separate entity called mind or soul or spirit temporarily dwelling in a physical body.
		If indeed they accept naturalism, humanists must also accept what science, the basis for naturalism, increasingly suggests is the case about ourselves: that we aren’t causal exceptions to nature.
	www.naturalism.org /murry.htm (2293 words)

	Chapter 14: Reactions from the Media
		In view of the radical nature of the Manifesto, particularly in its economic aspects (as in [section fourteen]), the influential support already given to it from so many representative quarters at leasts suggests that, so far from being "a dead topic", Humanism in the United States is very much alive.
		The humanists may call this by the name "religion" if they wish to, but they have no business to call it philosophy, despite the fact that certain well-known teachers of philosophy grace the "manifesto" with their signatures.
		I signed the humanist manifesto precisely because of the point to which you seem to object, namely because it had a religious context, and my signature was a sign of sympathy on that score, and not a commitment to every clause in it.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/edwin_wilson/manifesto/ch14.html (5145 words)

	CHAPTER I
		Dewey's approach to ethics is basically that of a philosophical naturalism which considers man to be a material organism or part of the natural world, whose special psychological and cultural qualities are understandable in terms of complex interrelations and a history of creative adaptations to environment and to the human milieu.
		Think, for example, of the areas of immediacy, that is, of pleasures and pains, satisfactions and dissatisfactions, which produced the hedonistic theories; of the break-up of human relations along the line of roles as a favorite recent sociological concept; or of the alignment of virtue and vice with the specific perennial task of raising children.
		They do require a justification which involves a fuller understanding of the nature of humans and their possibilities, the desirable form of human relations, and so on, but these may be such as to support the principles perennially rather than for just a brief period.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series01/I-11/chapter_i.htm (8451 words)

	Memeing Naturalism: Who counts as a naturalist?
		Occasional explorations of science-based, humanistic naturalism and its implications, with a focus on current news and commentary.
		Among the most florid expressions of natural teleology is the belief in “evolutionary enlightenment” and “conscious evolution” as championed by New Age gurus Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilbur.
		After hundreds of years of advances in the natural sciences, enormous sophistication in our instruments for taking the measure of the microscopic and the macroscopic, we discover that our universe is not natural.
	centerfornaturalism.blogspot.com /2006/09/who-counts-as-naturalist.html (1883 words)

	German Idealism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Nature was seen to be spiritual, as well as spatial, and was interpreted teleologically.
		Naturally, all distinctions and qualities, which are created by a finite relational consciousness, disappear in a self-contemplation of the Absolute by itself, and existence becomes neutral.
		In the finite consciousness there is a separation of the natural, the actual, and the empirical from the spiritual, the free, and the necessary.
	www.iep.utm.edu /g/germidea.htm (3619 words)

	Naturalism in American Literature
		The term naturalism describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings.
		It represented in a degree, to the correspondent, the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual--nature in the wind, and nature in the vision of men.
		When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/natural.htm (1180 words)

	Memeing Naturalism
		Naturalism, some have argued, should be suppressed since it calls into question some indispensable, although false, notions of human agency.
		If naturalism can be shown defective, for instance because it imposes cognitive blinders, limits the range of human experience, or blunts our engagement with the world and each other, then it must yield to whatever worldview does better in these respects.
		Naturalism simply names the worldview that holds the world is of a piece, not divided into the natural vs. the supernatural, and naturalists are simply those that subscribe to naturalism.
	centerfornaturalism.blogspot.com (3511 words)

	sermon060430
		Naturalism also maintains that we human beings do not consist of a separate entity called mind or soul or spirit, temporarily dwelling in a physical body, but that human beings are a psycho-somatic unity.
		From naturalism comes a sense of awe and wonder and reverence and mystery in the face of life and the universe that provides a deep spiritual dimension that humanism by itself lacks.
		The epic of cosmic evolution is the narrative that underlies humanistic religious naturalism and that provides the individual with a meaningful worldview and a sense of belonging to a larger process.
	www.rruc.org /sermons/sermon060430.shtml (2875 words)

	Quotes_Humanism
		To the consternation of the theist the humanist has arisen on the religious horizon to challenge his fundamentals and to assert that the time is ripe for a candid and impartial survey of the situation and its possibilities in the light of modern knowledge.
		We conclude that the humanist movement is a religious movement in that it is deeply concerned with the furtherance of human life along the lines indicated by reason and sympathetic intelligence.
		The religious humanist is not averse to a touch of romanticism to give vitality nor in his eyes is a pinch or two of humanitarianism and democracy an unmixed evil.
	www.errantskeptics.org /Quotes_Humanism.htm (11403 words)

	The Center for Naturalism
		As naturalism makes headway as a worldview, there are many allies of the Center for Naturalism out there doing good work to advance the cause.
		In her project on naturalizing ethics, which explores the commonalities between neuroscience and Spinoza's ethical and political theories, she questions the doctrine of contra-causal freedom and alerts us to its negative personal and social consequences.
		Lee Silver, molecular biologist and author of Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life, is a forceful advocate of coming to terms with our fully physical, natural nature.
	www.centerfornaturalism.org /allies_of_naturalism.htm (1324 words)

	Chart comparing Modern Humanism with Biblical Christianity in the field of Sociology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Humanists deny the gospel message of the church, yet desire to capture the church to use it to teach humanistic values.
		Humanists believe that church and state should be totally separate, yet insist upon teaching humanism (a religion) in government schools.
		Humanist sociology implies the godhood of the state, to regulate individuals and social institutions.
	www.biblicaltheism.com /chartsocioc.htm (444 words)

	Woodbridgean Realism and Naturalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Woodbridge was an important figure in the transition to philosophical realism and naturalism in the United States from the neo-Kantian and idealist philosophies that were dominant there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Thus naturalized, human beings and their activities were, on his view, the fullest expression of Nature’s actualities and the most complete illustration of what Nature is. While his humanistic naturalism brought human beings down to earth, this was less a debasement of the human than an elevation of Nature.
		He concluded that Nature must also include an objective logical structure, what he called the “realm of mind.” Because the objects of thought related in this realm are the same objects that human beings experience as spatio-temporally related, the realm of mind is also inseparable from the spatial and temporal realms.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jwood/fjew/fjewnat.htm (2480 words)

	UNDERSTANDING CONFLICT. VIOLENCE, AND WAR: FOUNDATIONS
		It has led to the development of a field theory of behavior which, I believe, integrates a variety of theoretical and philosophical approaches to war and violence and serves as the phenomenological framework for analyzing whether war is inevitable and what might be done about it.
		Only those aspects most helpful in understanding the nature of the dynamic field, the focus of this volume, or those pertinent to our later analysis of violence and war will be described.
		Selection, therefore, does not mean lack of interest in, or appreciation of, the various problems this perspective invokes, but a conscious attempt to stay on the mark: communicating the essence of the field which gives violence and war meaning and us leverage for their control.
	www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/NOTE10.HTM (6974 words)

	Psychological Record, The: J.R. Kantor's interbehavioral psychology and humanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Given the tremendous diversity in humanistic thinking (e.g., Kurtz, 1973), it is not surprising that a rigorous thinker such as Kantor would hesitate to affiliate with a rather amorphous intellectual sphere.
		Behavior recognizes the dynamic or active nature of all psychological events; inter emphasizes that the actor's actions are coordinated with specific objects such that action and object are always reciprocally related.
		If we take the humanistic movement of the 5th century B.C.E. in Greece as a major marker in the history of humanism (e.g., Schiller, 1970), then Kantor's system is consistent with this first significant step toward humanism.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3645/is_200301/ai_n9215859 (1177 words)

	ration
		Naturalism, in its rejection of the Biblical account of creation, also gathered the wiccan nature worshippers, who have always been among us, to join with them at the scientific table.
		Naturalism thus began to embrace a belief that the cosmos creates and rules itself sort of like a huge organism across the galaxies.
		Humanistic naturalism was thus a cloaked deception foisted onto a silly people who had chosen to forget their God.
	endtimepilgrim.org /ration.htm (5314 words)

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		Finally, 20th-century sculpture is not confined to the two traditional forming processes of carving and modelling or to such traditional natural materials as stone, metal, wood, ivory, bone, and clay.
		A sculpture may draw upon what already exists in the endless variety of natural and man-made form, or it may be an art of pure invention.
		The 20th century has seen the move away from humanistic naturalism to experimentation with new materials and techniques and new and complex imagery.
	www.greytgifts.com /susan/definition+sculpture.htm (1309 words)

	Spirituality
		Naturalism understands such experience as psychological states constituted by the activity of our brains, but this doesn't lessen the appeal of such experience, or render it less profound.
		Appreciating the fact of our complete inclusion in nature can generate feelings of connection and meaning that rival those offered by traditional religions, and those feelings reflect the empirical reality of our being at home in the cosmos.
		Nature was not created for us to use or abuse - Nature created us, we are an inseparable part of her, and we have a duty of care towards her.
	www.naturalism.org /spiritua.htm (323 words)

	Free Will
		The libertarians and their evident fear of mechanism are a good foil to showcase a humanistic determinism which has all the necessary resources, I argue, to support our ethical intuitions and which might also soften punitive and ego-driven attitudes that permeate our culture.
		If we don’t have free will, and the individual is not seen as ultimately morally responsible for his or her actions, how do we carry on moral discourse and justify moral judgments.
		Naturally, and naturalistically, I take issue with this and try to show that we need not compartmentalize science and ethics.
	www.naturalism.org /freewill.htm (1639 words)

	HUMANISM AND NATURE
		The realms of mind and nature are differentiable, with Western thought focusing on nature, Indian on mentality, and Chinese on harmonizing the two.
		We are of nature and not apart from it.
		My use of science in the text is generic, referring for the moment to the acceptance of empirical propositions conditionally, to the emphasis on intersubjective empirical testability, to the requirement for proof or evidence, and to the norm of public criticism.
	www.mega.nu:8080 /ampp/rummel/dpf.chap35.htm (3371 words)

	PAL: Late Nineteenth Century - Naturalism: A Brief Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Romanticism, according to Norris, was concerned with "variations from the type of normal life," and in its desire to penetrate beneath the surface of experience and derive large generalizations on the nature of life.
		"Naturalism is a manner and method of composition by which the author portrays 'life as it is' in accordance with the philosophic theory of determinism."
		In Naturalism, characters do not have free will; external and internal forces, environment, or heredity control their behavior.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap6/6intro.html (946 words)

	CWS Talk! - evil bad bad bad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Science is naturalistic and studies nature by what is known as methodological naturalism.
		So if you believe that science can study your god, then you are worshiping a natural being capable of being evaluated by purely naturalistic methods.
		The second difficulty for science testing for traces of God's Presence is the lack of repeatability regarding natural processes that God might use.
	www.botcw.com /talk/printthread.php?t=16690&page=2&pp=10 (2679 words)

	Spirituality - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Belief that is formed as the result of applying scientific method to observations of nature can be qualified as scientific knowledge, while any other belief is qualified as faith.
		My humanistic naturalism want words that are true to the feelings without supporting supernatrual beliefs or faith.
		Humanistic Naturalism is proper for me jsut now but who cares about such an academic way of using words.
	p090.ezboard.com /fbooktalkfrm36.showMessage?topicID=167.topic (3241 words)

	ArtLex's N-Nd page
		or naturalism - A style in which an artist intends to represent a subject as it appears in the natural world — precisely and objectivly — as opposed to being represented in a stylized or intellectually manipulated manner.
		Although naturalism is often used interchangeably with the term realism, there is a difference between them.
		The realism of Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877) is more interested in the honest depiction of unpretentious subjects, while the naturalism of Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815-1891) is more a visually accurate depiction of subjects which in other hands might well have been depicted pretentiously.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/N.html (2127 words)

	UNCA Catalog 1999-2000 - Philosophy (PHIL)
		Problems of sex and gender, such as the link between sex and gender, ethics of sexuality, "naturalness" of sex and gender roles, feminism as it relates to issues in sexual and gender role assignment.
		Differing interpretations of the nature of law and justice, rationales for punishment, concepts of responsibility and causation in the law.
		A study of the nature and significance of beauty and various approaches to judging beauty, not only in art, but also in ethics, religion, mathematics and science.
	www.unca.edu /catalog9900/phil.html (710 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Broadly conceived, naturalism uses the various methods of science, evidence, and reason to understand a natural universe that includes humanity and history.
		Schools of thought emerge in naturalism as well as in all other metaphysical positions; thus, we encounter "mechanistic naturalism," "dialectical materialism," and "humanistic naturalism" as non-theistic versions.
		The changing natural world is less real, even unreal, and less significant than Being itself; the Platonic "Forms" serve as a type of blueprint for the vast multiplicity of objects and ideas that populate the everyday human world.
	www.philosophy-religion.org /thought/intro-biblical-religion.htm (2521 words)

	uuworld.org : the emerging religious humanism
		Religious naturalism is a perspective that finds religious meaning in the natural world and rejects the notion of a supernatural realm.
		Although humanistic religious naturalism belongs to the logos type of religion, it does have stories that serve the same function as myths in providing a narrative understanding of the origin and meaning of the universe and of human life.
		Humanistic religious naturalism promotes an ethical life in which one thinks and acts from a larger perspective than one’s own egoistic interests, a life that affirms the worth and dignity of each person, a life filled with wonder and reverence for the extraordinary magnificence of the natural world and human creations.
	www.uuworld.org /ideas/articles/6558.shtml (2218 words)

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