If man is part of nature isn't anything that man creates part of nature?

Question

Meaning that anything that is "man made" is actually made by nature because man is a part of nature?

Answer 1

this is a very interesting idea. perhaps it would be more accurate to say that these "man made" things such as cars and electrical inventions, are by-products of nature. Artificiality is when something is made from materials that have not come straight out of the eco system, or have been somehow designed, manipulated and changed in factories or elsewhere. Wheras when a man and a woman producea baby, using nothing other than theiro own bodies, this is surely natural. there has to be some differentation between, say, the production of a car and the birth of a child.

Answer 2

False. This commits the fallacy of division (Arguing from whole to part). "Man" here is used as a whole (humanity), and thus argues that while the whole is a part of nature every part of the whole must necessarily be a part of nature. Is a sense image of some sensible thing a part of nature? I don't think it is. Now, taking the sense image and manipulating it with the power of imaginiation and taking the essence of a horse, a horn, and the color white combine them together and one has the image of a Unicorn in his mind--where is this in nature?

Answer 3

Not in my opinion. The only things that are part of nature are things that occur naturally, like humans.If something is made by man it is not made by nature. Nature makes trees and birds and flowers. Nature doesn't make skyscrapers.

Answer 4

It would seem that humans and all their dealings are part of nature, to those who object I ask (without falling back on any theology), "If humans and their creations are not part of nature, then what are they?" Is there some other realm of being which they belong to? Can you explain this realm to me?

Hegel suggested that nature was a problem for his logic, an accident and should therefore be "burned". For more on this see David Farrell Krell's books, "Contagion" and "The Tragic Absolute: Death and the Languishing of God"

Answer 5

Mind is not part of mans nature. Actually it is anti-nature. Nature functions in an Intelligent Perfection, which is not true of the things man has brought here, out of the mind!

Answer 6

Only God can create. "Man made" reflects on the fact that different elements of nature was used by man to make something else

Answer 7

Man can only create because of the God given ability to do so. Have you ever heard of that saying, "you shouldn't mess with mothe nature" ? She has her own kitchen with her own recipes. People do not know when to leave well enough alone.

Answer 8

"A major source of confusion, in this issue, is the failure to distinguish metaphysical facts from man-made facts—i.e., facts which are inherent in the identities of that which exists, from facts which depend upon the exercise of human volition. Because man has free will, no human choice—and no phenomenon which is a product of human choice—is metaphysically necessary. In regard to any man-made fact, it is valid to claim that man has chosen thus, but it was not inherent in the nature of existence for him to have done so; he could have chosen otherwise. For instance, the U.S. did not have to consist of 50 states; men could have subdivided the larger ones or consolidated the smaller ones, etc.

"Choice, however, is not chance. Volition is not an exception to the Law of Causality; it is a type of causation. Further, metaphysical facts are unalterable by man, and limit the alternatives open to his choice. Man can rearrange the materials that exist in reality, but he cannot violate their identity; he cannot escape the laws of nature. "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."

"Only in regard to the man-made is it valid to claim: "It happens to be, but it could have been otherwise." ..."

Answer 9

as humans we have the ability to think to create and much more. however we create for our own comfort and benefit. nature provides those things for us. natural substances have benefits for us humans or may be disastrous but we create things for our comfort and depending on how we go according to it can be harmfull, but by nature humans r weak and cannot truly control nature as for cars buildings houses computers are made for our benefits only... and can be controlled. this is just our way of living...
but what we create is not really natural because natural things r not always easy to provide. natural things can run out but human made things production doesnt run out (material things)

Answer 10

man cannot create but can only simply re-create or manipulate from what has already been created (nature)
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