Philosophy of Nature in the European Philosophical Tradition

Abstract

The article presents the main concepts of the philosophy of nature (Aristotelian, Cartesian, Kantian. Hegelian etc.) which emerges in the European philosophical tradition in the period from the origins of philosophy of nature (Milesian philosophy of nature) to Hegel’s philosophy of nature. Some attention is also devoted to the most obvious and most influential problem relation between philosophy (philosophy of nature) and empirical science, which arises from historical and philosophical attempts of reconstructing the genesis of modern experimental science.