This makes me wonder also about the concept we brought up in class of A,B, and C. In the principle of nature and humans, are they A, B, or C. Since nature and humans are both moving, then neither of them can be A, the unmoved mover. So lets call the unmoved mover God, or a higher being. Then is humans B or nature B? In some circumstances I think we could argues that humans are B. For example, God (A) "moves" a human to plant a tree, and therefore the human (B), has changed nature (C). But in other circumstances, we could argue that nature is B and humans are the C. For example, God (A), “moves” nature (B) to be very nice (perfect weather), and so humans (C) go outside and enjoy the weather.
I think that the latter is probably easier to believe. Nature is a bigger “being” than humans, and so therefore, I think it seems more plausible that nature has more power over humans, and therefore is prone to change humans more that humans are prone to change nature.
Until recently (the last hundred years ago), I think that the above statement was probably true. Now though, humans have a power over nature. Now, we have a power to decide which species will stay intact or not, and where we will let nature run its natural courses (state parks, reserves, etc).
But one could argue that nature still has power over humans because of examples like natural disasters and invasive species. The line is blurred now.
I guess the question I am asking is, Which do u think has more power over who?; Nature over Humans? Or humans over nature?
Do you think that maybe this could just be another circular pattern of motion, where one day nature will again have control over humans?
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I think your right on track when you say nature is ultimately a "bigger" being than humans. It is true that we have the ability to eliminate certain species, but there is still much of nature that is out of our control. We can not prevent against the big things, such as hurricanes, inclement weather, earthquakes etc. I think all of these have the ability to erradicate humans if occuring on a large enough scale.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the notion that nature does have a hold on us. In the end "nature" affects everything we do and how we live.
ReplyDeleteI think you have to eliminate the A part because not everyone believes in a god or higher being so I would scratch that one out. The relationship between our B to C is mutualistic. There are situations where nature is out of our control and other situations where nature is in our control. We control the outcome of nature and or planet just as nature controls the outcome of the human race.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it seems like nature is beyond everything we can conceptualize and so it could be consider A instead of positing a deity. I think the relationship between B and C is mutual in some respects because of our abilities to control at least some aspects of nature.
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