PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
28 Oct 2020
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Naturalism grew largely as an opposition to idealism and christian doctrine of the original sin. It disputes the notion that man is essentially evil. It takes an extreme position in arguing that inherent in human nature are dynamic quality features- forces which make man naturally inclined to develop towards goodness. It is a philosophy that argues for the return to nature. Its general outlook is that man"s development both physical and intellectual progresses in accordance with natural forces and natural laws. Naturalists believe that the totality of things which we call nature and which are studied in natural sciences is the totality of things. Any explanations in-terms of the supernatural are illegitimate. There is an inner principle of development in the universe, a sort of pattern according to which each thing develops according to the best of its type. Thus there exist in the child some hidden powers which unfold when he grows up to become an adult.
