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He knew but rejected the long tradition that Nature provides such a standard . In antiquity both Stoics and Epicureans , the most popular schools of philosophy , had proposed " Follow Nature " as their motto for moral action .
He knew but rejected the long tradition that Nature provides such a standard . In antiquity both Stoics and Epicureans , the most popular schools of philosophy , had proposed " Follow Nature " as their motto for moral action .
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These are what in science , and even in ordinary parlance , are meant by laws of nature . Laws in the other sense are the laws of the land , the law of nations , or moral laws ; among which , as already noticed , is dragged in by ...
These are what in science , and even in ordinary parlance , are meant by laws of nature . Laws in the other sense are the laws of the land , the law of nations , or moral laws ; among which , as already noticed , is dragged in by ...
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Man necessarily obeys the laws of nature , or , in other words , the properties of things , but he does not necessarily guide himself by them . Though all conduct is in conformity to laws of nature , all conduct is not grounded on ...
Man necessarily obeys the laws of nature , or , in other words , the properties of things , but he does not necessarily guide himself by them . Though all conduct is in conformity to laws of nature , all conduct is not grounded on ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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