Natural philosophy
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al-ḥikmah al-ṭabīʻīyah · countless worlds · investigation of nature · natural philosopher · natural philosophy · the kind of wisdom which they call investigation of nature · الحكمة الطبيعية
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Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The study of nature, allowed as harmless and even rewardable through right intention, yet excluded from the sciences that bring a man near to God.
As for natural philosophy, there is no harm in it, but it is no part of the sciences of religion, nor of what brings a man near to God Most High, nor of the provision for the return;
On Moral Ends
The naturalist cosmology (countless worlds, infinite regions) that Epicurus claimed to hold, used against his conduct
These were not the acts of one who had traversed in mind countless worlds and infinite regions, of which there was no shore, no boundary.
that it would have been more your part to keep the birthday of Epicurus, than for him by his will to provide that it be kept.
Phaedo
The pre-Socratic style of inquiry into the physical causes of natural phenomena, which the young Socrates pursued and later found himself 'totally unfitted for.'
When I was young, Cebes, I was tremendously eager for the kind of wisdom which they call investigation of nature.
And again I tried to find out how these things perish, and I investigated the phenomena of heaven and earth until finally I made up my mind that I was by nature totally unfitted for this kind of investigation.