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Metaphysical Relation of Religion and Science in Wordsworth's View of Nature
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The concept of a harmonious and purposive nature in the 17th and 18th century in England was most often held by writers who were not orthodox Christians. They were likely to be deists, pantheists or free-thinkers rather than strict Christian believers. Their sympathies were more with natural theology than with supernatural religion. They tended to conceive of God as a divine "principle" immanent in nature and the universe. William Wordsworth is called as "Poet of Nature" or "Worshiper of Nature." My main intention in this study is to research complicated relation between religion and science in his concept of nature. This research also includes to search out some particular sources and metaphysical backgrounds for his thought about nature. Prominent in Wordsworth is the idea of a universal nature, a "spirit of nature" or "soul of all the worlds", which is an "active principle" sufficient to account for the animated and purposive behavior of things and avoid the stigma of kind of mechanical philosophy. He accepted the idea of the purposiveness, harmony, benevolence of nature. This concept of nature is grounded mainly in English natural theology of the 17th and 18th centuries, strongly supported by scientific theories of Newton, and some Platonic writers like Cudworth, More, Shaftesbury and Berkeley. Wordsworth in the period of "Tintern Abbey" has a concept of nature which has more autonomous power without referring to any theological source. He was least dominated by the theological doctrines of Christianity in the main period of his nature poetry. Nature may be regarded as a kind of substitute religion, which we may call the religion of naturalism. However he had been led to more reliance on the creativity, the poetic imagination, or religious faith, since he wrote The Prelude in 1805. In conclusion, Wordsworth is positioned as a unique poet of nature, who deepened view of nature by adapting creatively its various metaphysics interlaced with religion and science.
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The concept of a harmonious and purposive nature in the 17th and 18th century in England was most often held by writers who were not orthodox Christians. They were likely to be deists, pantheists or free-thinkers rather than strict Christian believers. Their sympathies were more with natural theology than with supernatural religion. They tended to conceive of God as a divine "principle" immanent in nature and the universe. William Wordsworth is called as "Poet of Nature" or "Worshiper of Nature." My main intention in this study is to research complicated relation between religion and science in his concept of nature. This research also includes to search out some particular sources and metaphysical backgrounds for his thought about nature. Prominent in Wordsworth is the idea of a universal nature, a "spirit of nature" or "soul of all the worlds", which is an "active principle" sufficient to account for the animated and purposive behavior of things and avoid the stigma of kind of mechanical philosophy. He accepted the idea of the purposiveness, harmony, benevolence of nature. This concept of nature is grounded mainly in English natural theology of the 17th and 18th centuries, strongly supported by scientific theories of Newton, and some Platonic writers like Cudworth, More, Shaftesbury and Berkeley. Wordsworth in the period of "Tintern Abbey" has a concept of nature which has more autonomous power without referring to any theological source. He was least dominated by the theological doctrines of Christianity in the main period of his nature poetry. Nature may be regarded as a kind of substitute religion, which we may call the religion of naturalism. However he had been led to more reliance on the creativity, the poetic imagination, or religious faith, since he wrote The Prelude in 1805. In conclusion, Wordsworth is positioned as a unique poet of nature, who deepened view of nature by adapting creatively its various metaphysics interlaced with religion and science.
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