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naturalism
naturalism in art, a tendency toward strict adherence to the physical appearance of nature and rejection of ideal forms. Artists as diverse as Velázquez , J. F. Millet , and Monet , have followed naturalistic principles. ... Read more
naturalism
naturalism in philosophy, a position that attempts to explain all phenomena and account for all values by means of strictly natural (as opposed to supernatural) categories. The particular meaning of naturalism varies with what is opposed to it. It is usually considered the opposite of idealism , i... Read more
naturalism
naturalism in literature, an approach that proceeds from an analysis of reality in terms of natural forces, e.g., heredity, environment, physical drives. The chief literary theorist on naturalism was Émile Zola , who said in his essay Le Roman expérimental (1880) that the novelist ... Read more
natural rights
natural rights political theory that maintains that an individual enters into society with certain basic rights and that no government can deny these rights. The modern idea of natural rights grew out of the ancient and medieval doctrines of natural law , i.e., the belief that people, as creatures... Read more
natural childbirth
natural childbirth (nach-ĕr-ăl) n. labour and delivery that relies largely on the efforts of the mother alone, with the minimum of medical intervention.... Read more
natural law
natural law theory that some laws are basic and fundamental to human nature and are discoverable by human reason without reference to specific legislative enactments or judicial decisions. Natural law is opposed to positive law, which is human-made, conditioned by history, and subject to continuous... Read more
natural gas
natural gas natural mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons found issuing from the ground or obtained from specially driven wells. The composition of natural gas varies in different localities. Its chief component, methane , usually makes up from 80% to 95%, and the balance is composed of varying amount... Read more
natural selection
natural selection (‘survival of the fittest’) A complex process in which the total environment determines which members of a species survive to reproduce and so pass on their genes to the next generation. This need not necessarily involve a struggle between organisms.... Read more
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) or World Conservation Union, international organization founded in 1948 to encourage the preservation of wildlife, natural environments, and living resources. Its members include private individuals, nongovernmental... Read more
conservation of natural resources
conservation of natural resources the wise use of the earth's resources by humanity. The term conservation came into use in the late 19th cent. and referred to the management, mainly for economic reasons, of such valuable natural resources as timber, fish, game, topsoil, pastureland, and minerals... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "naturalism"

Naturalism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion Naturalism Naturalism arouses strong emotions. Some see it as a banner to follow, some as the enemy to fight. Theological or religious naturalism is even more controversial: Is it truly religious? And if so...
naturalism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition naturalism in literature, an approach that proceeds...drives. The chief literary theorist on naturalism was Émile Zola , who said...Farrell , and James Jones . In the drama, naturalism developed in the late 19th cent. By...
Metaphysical Naturalism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion Metaphysical Naturalism See
Ernest Nagel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...science within the framework of pragmatic naturalism. Ernest Nagel was born in Czechoslovakia...comprehensive framework of American pragmatic naturalism. The influence of logical positivism...identifiable contexts." Proponent of Naturalism Nagel expounded his naturalism in 1954...
Worldview
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...feminism, Christianity, Islam, or naturalism. If the concept is understood in the...a scientific statement. Theism and naturalism, on the other hand, offer an answer...consists of God and all that God has made. Naturalism holds that reality consists of nothing...
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593–c. 1654)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...artificial contrivance of mannerism with a naturalism inspired by the revolutionary vision...Caravaggio and seventeenth-century naturalism extended to his followers, including...lighting, surface texture, and aggressive naturalism ( Judith Beheading Holofernes [Uffizi...
Sidney Hook
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...his death in 1989. Hook described his thought as pragmatic naturalism, experimentalism, or "the philosophy of pragmatism in the...quest to make a better world. Hook applied his pragmatic naturalism to a wide array of philosophical and social issues. In his...
Irving Babbitt
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...perceived that Western culture had been negatively impacted by the naturalism of eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques...ideas of the highest order, if conservatism is to withstand naturalism and its political progeny." From Ohio to Harvard Babbitt...
Georg Brandes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...The Reaction in France, 1874); Naturalismen i England ( Naturalism in England, 1875), the first volumes of his monumental...and the Romantic writer Victor Hugo, among others. In Naturalism in England Brandes considered the works of such poets as William...
Strindberg, (Johann) August
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...Nietzsche, came under the influence of Swedenborg. The naturalism of his earliest dramatic works developed into a highly charged realism (he preferred the term ‘neo-naturalism’) which has been seen as an anticipation of...

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Naturalism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History NATURALISM NATURALISM, a literary mode developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...documentary quality, and a deterministic philosophy. The term "naturalism" is especially, but not exclusively, applied to novels. French...
Naturalism in Art and Literature
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas NATURALISM IN ART AND LITERATURE. Naturalism, a term widely used in the nineteenth century, was employed...and art critics as a synonym for realism. But, in fact, naturalism was a much more complex term. The term derived from the...
naturalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology naturalism In sociology and moral philosophy the term naturalism has several distinct but related uses which are frequently confused with one another. In moral philosophy, naturalism is the thesis ( contra Hume's famous denial that...
methodological naturalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology methodological naturalism See EMPIRICISM ; NATURALISM .
anti-naturalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology anti-naturalism See NATURALISM .
Black Narcissus
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Ian, and R. Collins, "Michael Powell: The Expense of Naturalism," in Monogram (London), no. 3, 1972. Walker, Michael...expressive contributions to a cinema heralded more for its naturalism than such exercises in studio-bound artifice. The palace...
Do Bigha Zamin
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...s Do bigha zamin introduced an element of seriousness and naturalism. Roy did not break with tradition in his film: Do bigha...melodrama and the slow surfacing of responses characteristic of naturalism. At the landlord's, the peasant (played by the deeply...
Humanism: Africa
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...modern European humanism, which is premised upon a secular naturalism as the only model of humanism. The modern European humanist...positivism in science and based his form of humanism on secular naturalism. Abdel-Rahman Badawi (1917 – 2002), also Egyptian...
naturalist
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...an expert in or student of natural history. 2. a person who practices naturalism in art or literature. ∎  a person who adopts philosophical naturalism. • adj. another term for naturalistic .
Historicism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...opposed it to the reductionist and deterministic philosophy of naturalism; and in 1879 Karl Werner applied the phrase "philosophical...existence. Like Braniss, Troeltsch opposed "historicism" to "naturalism" and traced this war of methods back to the seventeenth century...

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Naturalism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; NATURALISM by Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro...16.00. ISBN: 9780802807687. In Naturalism Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro...address early on the problem that "naturalism" is not a single view but a large and...
Sailing under false colors: naturalism revisited.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Symposium; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...The study of present-day scholarship on Naturalism and its existing definitions is followed...advantages accrued by a reconceptualization of Naturalism. Keywords: literary theory, Naturalism, narratology, reconceptualization, science...
From scientific method to methodological naturalism: the evolution of an idea.(Communication)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...enterprise that he named "methodological naturalism." As a professor of philosophy at Wheaton...manipulated faith. (1) The term methodological naturalism first appeared in print in "Naturalism in the Natural Sciences," an article written...
Rehabilitating naturalism
Magazine article from: Inroads; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...of the history of realism (and naturalism), as well as serious problems...we need to define realism and naturalism. According to British critic Bamber Gascoigne, "The meaning of 'naturalism' is beyond dispute - it represents...
Philosophy and naturalism.(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism, edited by John R. Shook...2) 360 pp. Cloth $32. Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism is primarily the anthology...realism in the context of pragmatic naturalism" (p. 9). Most contributors seek...
Polarities between naturalism and non-naturalism in contemporary economics: an overview.
Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...of the few hundred-year-old debate between naturalism and non-naturalism in the broader field of the social sciences...main philosophical positions in social science, naturalism and non-naturalism, related particularly to...
The naturalism debate and the development of European philosophy
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...originally more or less American debate over naturalism and anti-naturalism, a debate that significantly transforms the...methodological and metaphilosophical controversy over naturalism is at the heart of some of the most interesting...
Domesticating naturalism: the example of 'The Pit.' (The Genders of Naturalism)
Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...this essay.(1) American literary naturalism flourished during a period that historians...masculinity."(2) Not surprisingly, naturalism has generally been seen as hypermasculine...necessary uses, but the problem with how naturalism has been constructed is that all the...
SIMPLE MINDEDNESS: IN DEFENSE OF NAIVE NATURALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Philosophical Review; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; SIMPLE MINDEDNESS: IN DEFENSE OF NAIVE NATURALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND. By JENNIFER HORNSBY...the philosophy of mind Hornsby calls "naive naturalism." She advertises naive naturalism as neither physicalist nor Cartesian. Hornsby...
Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism
Magazine article from: Legacy; 10/31/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...the center of a reading of American naturalism, particularly the women in "The Yellow...What happens to the parameters of naturalism if we envision constrained, domestic...offers a refreshing interpretation of naturalism by reading texts commonly recognized...