Question

Idealism has competed with naturalism for popularity since ancient times. Naturalism believes that

a. All events, human and natural, share the same character and can be explained as a process inherent in nature.
b. Nature is reliable and dependable.
c. Nature is a mysterious force that is not reliable or dependable and therefore, can not be used to "explain" anything.
d. A and b only.
e. All the above are true

Answer 1

Naturalism believes that all events, human and natural, share the same character and can be explained as a process inherent in nature. It also believe that nature is reliable and dependable.

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

The idea of naturalism comes from total and undisputed faith in nature and its universality. The ones who coined the idea of naturalism as a theory believed that there is nothing that cannot be explained without the help of nature and all the processes that happen in the universe have a natural cause at their base.