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After a period of considerable neglect the question of nature has reappeared forcefully as a focus of scientific as well as everyday reflection on life. This is because the culture of contemporary society has been very much informed by technological advance and for that very reason society now finds itself at a breaking point. Under the guise of discussing the environment, natural resources, ecological questions, even interplanetary investigations, we are at bottom asking this question: What is nature?
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Tymieniecka, AT. (1995). Nature in the Ontopoiesis of Life: From the Cosmic Dissemination to the Human Cultivation of the Logos. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Heaven, Earth, and In-Between in the Harmony of Life. Analecta Husserliana, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0247-6_2
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