Naturalism’s dialectical self-motion reflected the breakup of hierarchical social order

Evidence

The distinctive feature of the naturalist philosophy was the dialectical process as the key to both the organic unity of nature and its immanent self-motion. Nature was a constantly growing, changing, and evolving organism. Naturalism thus postulated a more radical interpretation of change than Neoplatonism and more strongly reflected the breakup of the hierarchical social order and the movement to question the received authority of Aristotle. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 494

Categorization

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