Ep. 8 – Man and Nature
Alan Watts Being in the Way
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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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