Natural philosophy refers to the
A. Achaemenid notion that in understanding nature, humans can understand the divine.
B. Greek idea that laws govern nature and human behavior and that humans can discern these laws through careful investigation.
C. Hebrew belief that god controls all aspects of nature.
D. Greek concept that all complex human civilizations will inevitably participate in philosophical inquiry.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
The collapse of the Soviet Union took place in
A) 1989. B) 1991. C) 1993. D) 1994. E) 1995.
The father of positivism, Auguste Comte, believed in all the following EXCEPT
a. contemporary society was in a state of intellectual anarchy. b. the laws of human behavior can be discovered just as the law of gravity has been; one such law is the "law of three stages" to describe the development of human knowledge. c. in the most primitive stage of human knowledge, natural phenomena was explained by the supernatural. d. the metaphysical stage was a transitional stage in which phenomena were explained through abstractions. e. in the final stage, which included the Enlightenment and Comte's own time, all illusions are dispelled and the mind is convinced only by observation and verifiable information.
The two major forms of Greek drama were
a. love stories and military epics. b. morality tales and religious mythology. c. tragedy and comedy. d. musicals and pantomime. e. None of these.
Stalin's main tool for implementing terror was the
a. KGB. b. NVKD. c. People's Commissar. d. SovNarKom. e. NEP.