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   What is natural philosophy?

   • Natural philosophy, as distinguished from metaphysics and mathematics, is traditionally understood to encompass a wide range of subjects which Aristotle included in the physical sciences. According to this classification, natural philosophy is the science of those beings which undergo change and are independent of human beings.

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   What was natural philosophy before modern science?

   • It was dominant before the development of modern science . From the ancient world (at least since Aristotle) until the 19th century, natural philosophy was the common term for the study of physics (nature), a broad term that included botany, zoology, anthropology, and chemistry as well as what we now call physics.

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   What is the difference between natural philosophy and Natural History?

   • Natural philosophy was distinguished from the other precursor of modern science, natural history, in that natural philosophy involved reasoning and explanations about nature (and after Galileo, quantitative reasoning), whereas natural history was essentially qualitative and descriptive.

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   Does natural philosophy have an ethical lesson?

   • The view that natural philosophy contains an ethical lesson is not unique to Plato, but it is not clear that Aristotle endorsed it. Indeed, it is possible to develop an interpretation of Aristotle according to which natural philosophy and ethics represent two distinct, autonomous spheres of philosophy.

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2. plato.stanford.edu › entries › aristotle-natphilAristotle’s Natural Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of ...

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   May 26, 2006 · 1. Natures and the four causes. Nature, according to Aristotle, is an inner principle of change and being at rest ( Physics 2.1, 192b20–23). This means that when an entity moves or is at rest according to its nature reference to its nature may serve as an explanation of the event.

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3. www.sparknotes.com › biography › aristotlebioAristotle Study Guide: Natural Philosophy | SparkNotes

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   Natural Philosophy. The heart of Aristotle's work in natural philosophy comprises four central works: Physics, On the Heavens, On Coming-to-be and Passing-away, and Meteorology. Spanning eight books, Physics, has little to do with what we know as "physics" and is more properly characterized as natural science.

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   Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe. It was dominant before the development of modern science.

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   Summary. “Natural philosophy” is often used by historians of science as an umbrella term to designate the study of nature before it could easily be identified with what we call “science” today. This is done to avoid the modern and potentially anachronistic connotations of the term “science.”

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   Mar 1, 2005 · On this reading of Plato's natural philosophy, a study of the natural world provides objective grounds for the view that nature by its teleological order promotes the rule of reason over necessity. This is ethically significant since we face as human beings the same challenge to reassert the role of reason over necessity.

7. assets.cambridge.org › 97811070 › 20658of Natural Philosophy The Mathematical Principles

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   978-1-107-02065-8 — The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Isaac Newton , Edited and translated by C. R. Leedham-Green Frontmatter,,,,