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Ep. 8 – Man and Nature
Alan Watts Being in the Way
The Relationship Between Man and Nature
In the history of philosophy, there are really three theories of nature. The western theory is that nature is a machine or an artifact. We inherit this from the hebrews who believed that nature was made by god in somewhat the same way as a potter makes a pot out of clay and a carpenter makes a table out of wood. Our tradition has been to look upon the world as a construct, and somebody knows how it was put together. Somebody understands, and that is the construct, the architect, the lord god.
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