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Like art, science is born of itself, not of nature. There is no neutral naturalism. The artist, no less than the writer, needs a vocabulary before he can embark on a 'copy' of reality.
Ernst Gombrich
The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.
John Burroughs
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
Gene Wilder
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
Ben Okri
I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.
Christian Louboutin
As I came to Munich in 1901 it was in a period of great artistic renewal. Jugendstil began in its way to attack the old naturalism and to cultivate the qualities of pure line.
Gabriele Munter
A central thesis of this book is that the connection between thought and practice is most intimately and fully realized only when our minds are addressed to our own affairs-the concerns of humanity. When we direct our thoughts to nature, even if to see ourselves as fixtures of nature, we loosen the connection between thought and practice. When we loosen it, we are tempted to assume the posture I earlier called naturalism. We survey both the human and the nonhuman worlds from a supposedly godlike distance. We treat the achievement of such distance as the realization of our longing for transcendence.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.
Marisa Tomei
I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.
Nick Park
Sixth is the argument from purpose: # According to Dr. Rosenberg, if naturalism is true then I do not plan to do anything. # But, I planned to come to tonight's debate. That is why I am here. From which it follows: # Therefore, naturalism is not true.
William Lane Craig
Fifth is the argument from freedom: # According to Dr. Rosenberg, if naturalism is true then I do not do anything freely. Everything is determined. # But, I can freely agree or disagree with premise (1). From which it follows: # Therefore, naturalism is not true.
William Lane Craig
Third is the argument from truth: # According to Dr. Rosenberg, if naturalism is true then there are no true sentences. That is because they are all meaningless. # But, premise (1) is true. That is what the naturalist believes and asserts. # Therefore, naturalism is not true.
William Lane Craig
Second is the argument from meaning: # According to Dr. Rosenberg, if naturalism is true then no sentence has any meaning. And he says that all the sentences in his own book are in fact meaningless. # But, premise (1) has meaning. We all understood it. # Therefore, naturalism is not true.
William Lane Craig
Finally, the argument from personal existence - this is perhaps the coup de grace against naturalism: # According to Dr. Rosenberg, if naturalism is true then I do not exist. He says there are no selves, there are no persons, no first-person perspectives. # But, I do exist! I know this as certainly as I know anything. From which it follows: # Therefore, naturalism is not true.
William Lane Craig
Seventh is the argument from enduring: # According to Dr. Rosenberg, if naturalism is true then I do not endure for two moments of time. # But, I have been sitting here for more than a minute. If you think that you are the same person who walked into the room tonight then you should agree that: # Therefore, naturalism is not true.
William Lane Craig
Fourth is the argument from moral praise and blame: # According to Dr. Rosenberg, if naturalism is true then I am not morally praiseworthy or blameworthy for any of my actions because, as I said, on his view objective moral values and duties do not exist. # But, I am morally praiseworthy and blameworthy for at least some of my actions. If you think that you have ever done something truly wrong or truly good then you should conclude: # Therefore, naturalism is not true.
William Lane Craig
First is the argument from intentionality: # According to Dr. Rosenberg, if naturalism is true then I cannot think about anything. That is because there are no intentional states. # But I am thinking about naturalism. From which it follows, # Therefore, naturalism is not true. So, if you think that you ever think about anything you should conclude that naturalism is false.
William Lane Craig
What can we say about metaphysical naturalism? Again, I want to make two points. # My arguments for the existence of God show that metaphysical naturalism is not true. There is a personal, transcendent reality beyond the physical universe. # Secondly, I think that metaphysical naturalism is so contrary to reason and experience as to be absurd. In the following arguments, the first premise in every case is taken from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rosenberg Dr. Rosenberg]'s own book.
William Lane Craig
Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
Philip Johnson
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.
Philip Johnson
I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.
Willem Dafoe
Santayana, indeed, is the Moses of the new naturalism, who discerned the promised land from afar but still wanders himself in the desert realms of being.
George Santayana
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