Why Nature and View of Nature Will Change?---Analysis of Collingwood’s Natural Philosophy
LEI Huan-jie
WANG Bo-lu
Abstract：Collingwood’s The Idea of Nature contains rich natural philosophy. Collingwood discusses the change of three kinds of the view of nature, whose responses to the fundamental question “what is natural” are different. From the consensus “nature of everything in a constant state of change”, exploring why and how to describe the change respectively can explain the reason why they changes. History helps to achieve mastery of changing nature, and the ultimate goal is to shift from the view of nature towards the view of history. Although Collingwood’s prophecy has not come true yet, it helps to reconstruct the human understanding of nature and of its own and look forward to the new view of nature.
Keywords：Collingwoodthe view of natureThe Idea of Naturefunctionhistory
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 54-58 )