Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.

Milton was required to absorb and display an intensive and accurate knowledge of Latin grammar, logic-rhetoric, ethics, physics or natural philosophy, metaphysics, and Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.

Rothbard bases his philosophy on natural law grounds and also provides economic explanations of why he thinks anarcho-capitalism is preferable on pragmatic grounds as well.

The philosophy is founded on the notion that human society originates with the development of agriculture, and societies are based upon " people's natural prospensity to farm.

In later life Ampère claimed that he knew as much about mathematics and science when he was eighteen as ever he knew ; but, a polymath, his reading embraced history, travels, poetry, philosophy, and the natural sciences.

Ampère's final work, published posthumously, was Essai sur la philosophie des sciences, ou exposition analytique d ' une classification naturelle de toutes les connaissances humaines (" Essay on the philosophy of science or analytical exposition on the natural classification of human knowledge ").

Due to his contributions to natural philosophy, the plant species Alberta magna and the asteroid 20006 Albertus Magnus were named after him.

For Hume, philosophy can be split into two general parts: natural philosophy and the philosophy of human nature ( or, as he calls it, " moral philosophy ").

St. Bonaventure ’ s “ Retracing the Arts to Theology ”, a primary example of this method, discusses the skills of the artisan as gifts given by God for the purpose of disclosing God to mankind, which purpose is achieved through four lights: the light of skill in mechanical arts which discloses the world of artifacts ; which light is guided by the light of sense perception which discloses the world of natural forms ; which light, consequently, is guided by the light of philosophy which discloses the world of intellectual truth ; finally, this light is guided by the light of divine wisdom which discloses the world of saving truth.

In his early works, Steiner sought to overcome what he perceived as the dualism of Cartesian idealism and Kantian subjectivism by developing Goethe's conception of the human being as a natural-supernatural entity, that is: natural in that humanity is a product of nature, supernatural in that through our conceptual powers we extend nature's realm, allowing it to achieve a reflective capacity in us as philosophy, art and science.

After attaining to great proficiency in that kind of learning, Abdallatif applied himself to natural philosophy and medicine.

The remarkable development of ideas in " natural philosophy " had established itself in the public consciousness with Newton's physics taken as a paradigm: structures should be well-founded in axioms and be both well-articulated and orderly.

In the Consolation, Boethius answered religious questions without reference to Christianity, relying solely on natural philosophy and the Classical Greek tradition.

The philosophy is founded on the notion that human society originates with the development of agriculture, and societies are based upon " people's natural prospensity to farm.

The convention reminds decision-makers that natural resources are not infinite and sets out a philosophy of sustainable use.

Traditionalist conservatism is a political philosophy emphasizing the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral order, tradition, hierarchy and organic unity, agrarianism, classicism and high culture, and the intersecting spheres of loyalty.

is a philosophy which holds that reason and observation of the natural world, without the need for organized religion, can determine that the universe is the product of a creator deity.

This idea is in conflict with the evolutionary philosophy of paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who preferred to stress the " pluralism " of evolution ( i. e., its dependence on many crucial factors, of which natural selection is only one ).

All Dominican students were required to learn grammar, old and new logic, natural philosophy and theology.

Materialism is a realist philosophy of science, which holds that the world is material ; that all phenomena in the universe consist of " matter in motion ," wherein all things are interdependent and interconnected and develop according to natural law ; that the world exists outside us and independently of our perception of it ; that thought is a reflection of the material world in the brain, and that the world is in principle knowable.

Mayr is sometimes credited with inventing modern philosophy of biology, particularly the part related to evolutionary biology, which he distinguished from physics due to its introduction of ( natural ) history into science.

The student should be taught such basic subjects as English, languages, history, mathematics, natural science, philosophy, and fine arts.

This account is, however, contentious among historians, it being most commonly asserted that he died of natural causes.

Note: Concentrations of Cr ( VI ) in US municipal drinking water supplies reported by EWG are within likely, natural background levels for the areas tested and not necessarily indicative of industrial pollution ( CalEPA Fact Sheet ), as asserted by EWG.

He asserted that the sciences, humanities, and arts have a common goal: to give a purpose to understanding the details, to lend to all inquirers " a conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws.

Whereas the " higher " law Aristotle suggested one could appeal to was emphatically natural, in contradistinction to being the result of divine positive legislation, the Stoic natural law was indifferent to the divine or natural source of the law: the Stoics asserted the existence of a rational and purposeful order to the universe ( a divine or eternal law ), and the means by which a rational being lived in accordance with this order was the natural law, which spelled out action that accorded with virtue.

He dismissed the first principle, which asserted spatial and temporal invariance of natural laws, as no longer an issue of debate.

Grotius posited that individual human beings had natural rights ; Hobbes asserted that men consent to abdicate their rights in favor of the absolute authority of government ( whether monarchial or parliamentary ); Pufendorf disputed Hobbes's equation of a state of nature with war ; Locke believed that natural rights were inalienable, and that the rule of God therefore superseded government authority ; and Rousseau believed that democracy ( self-rule ) was the best way of ensuring the general welfare while maintaining individual freedom under the rule of law.

Kerkyra, the " Door of Venice " during the centuries when the whole Adriatic was the Gulf of Venice, remained in Venetian hands from 1401 until 1797, though several times assailed by Turkish naval and land forces and subjected to four notable sieges in 1537, 1571, 1573 and 1716, in which the great natural strength of the city and its defenders asserted itself time after time.

In May 1963, Norway asserted sovereign rights over natural resources in its sector of the North Sea.

It almost unanimously, with the exception of two individuals, condemned the Monothelite doctrine as one that diminished the fullness of Christ ’ s humanity, and asserted that Dyothelitism was the true doctrine, with Christ possessing " two natural wills and two natural energies, without division, alteration, separation or confusion.

In January 1990, Irving gave a speech in Moers where he asserted that only 30, 000 people died at Auschwitz between 1940 – 45, all of natural causes, which was equal — so he claimed — to the typical death toll from one Bomber Command raid on German cities.

Coke asserted that judge-made law had the answer to any question asked of it, and as a result, " a learned judge ... was the natural arbiter of politics ".

They asserted that it was natural and desirable for critical thought to engender commensurate action, the principle on which the Libertarian Society was launched.

It is significant that in addition to simply arguing for their rights as Englishmen, the congress also asserted that they had certain natural rights solely because they were human beings.

Aquinas proposed a theory of natural law which asserted that something is moral if it works towards the purpose of human existence, and so human nature can determine what is moral.

The existence of natural rights has been asserted by different individuals on different premises, such as a priori philosophical reasoning or religious principles.

The Hollywood Reporter found her " endearingly natural "; Sukanya Verma of Rediff. com asserted that " after doing ornamental roles in films like Bodyguard and Ra. One, it is nice to see the spunky actress in her element again since Jab We Met.

Castro is reported to once have asserted that, " in the country, there are no homosexuals ", before in 1992 claiming that homosexuality is a “ natural human tendency that must simply be respected .” Another source reports Castro as having denounced " maricones " (" faggots ") as " agents of imperialism ".

Substantive naturalism focuses on an asserted equality of facts of knowledge and natural facts.

" In The Ethics of Liberty, Rothbard asserted the right of 100 percent self-ownership, as the only principle compatible with a moral code that applies to every person-a " universal ethic "-and that it is a natural law by being what is naturally best for man.