Strenghts And Weakness In Kant Argument Of Nature

Human thinking and senses.
             nourish and bask themselves in this indisputable, cosmic intimacy. In comparison with this the attention of early Christian.
             philosophers and theologians shifts from the visible creation to its invisible Creator. Although God's creation witnesses to His.
             goodness and rationality, nature becomes only a sign of them. The attention for the metaphysical dimension of human life is from.
             now on based on a longing for knowing the truth of an invisible Creator. According to Augustine this truth can be present in the.
             human soul and in principle be revealed by the internal Light. The human eye is from now on and primarily directed to the interior of.
             the human self and not anymore to the truths of an eternal, cosmic order. This shift in attention coincides with the Christian demand.
             to be a free human being, who has the obligation to honour and to love the Creator, not the creation. Respecting and loving the.
             cosmic order change radically into respecting and loving God. Human freedom in relation to God and nature, human responsibility.
             concerning one's own salvation become the cornerstones for the secularisation of nature.
             A second and decisive development, by which nature is secularised, neutralised, is found at the beginning of the hegemony of the.
             conceptual-nominalistic tradition in Western philosophy and theology. Now, according to William Ockham, real science belongs.
             only to the domain of terms or concepts, which stand for the real thing 'in rerum natura'. Theologically speaking God's will in.
             creating nature is absolutely free and nature becomes only a contingency. Each teleological conception, in which nature has its own.
             intrinsic value, is denied because it is not compatible with the almighty power of God's will and with the Christian concept of.
             freedom in relation to nature. This nominalistic subject loses contact with a cosmic order, ever present and endowed with meaning.
             Although Ockham's doctrine is a prelude to the typically modern adage of the 'verum et factum convertuntur', the birthplace of.