[MD] nature or religion?

[John Carl]

Hmmm... that's confusing Marsha,  Doesn't the Vatican know that Nature
Worship IS a religion?

The only one I find worthy of my allegiance, anyway...

I found a cool Roycean reference on this matter this morning...


Contrary to the prevailing dualism of modern philosophy that asserts
that nature is essentially cleaved into mind and matter, Royce offers
us a vision of man and nature as grounded in a whole that is social
and ultimately one. By extending his general theory of being to the
special field of philosophy of nature, the original nature of being
shows us the intrinsic relatedness of man and nature, the community of
human beings and natural beings.  According to Royce, the doctrine of
evolution, when seen in the light of his social theory of being, shows
us that man and nature are not only related on a continuum of internal
relations (each exhibiting self-similar phenomena and behavior) but
that the course of being per se and, thereby, the course of nature is
moving towards a kind of “universal Sociology.”  Herein lies the
possibility of meaningful contact and, ultimately, communication
between natural beings and human beings.

This possibility, I assert, necessitates that we review our relations
with natural beings and in particular reassess these relations in
terms of the appreciative categories of respect and sympathy.


And I'd have to agree with Mr. Thomas Price's assessment

http://tpf.siuc.edu/Volume%2015%20Web%20Files/Volume%2015%20Thomas%20W.%20Price.pdf



On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:17 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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