Word: naturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and Perey W. Bridgeman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, will conclude the Law School Forum's five-day symposium on "Values for Modern Man" with a general discussion tonight. The final talk will get under way at 8 p.m...
Le Corbeiller, lecturer on applied physics, agreed with the previous speaker that natural laws "cannot give us guidance in the affairs of the day. But I believe," he said, "that scientific contemplation does suggest a new view of man's relation to the universe.
Four scientists agreed last night that laboratory research can help man discover "natural" social laws, in the third session of the Law School Forum's symposium on "Values for Modern Man" in Langdell Courtroom.
Mrs. Gaposchkin described science as "merely a shorthand description of the behavior of the universe," and denied that natural science can divulge any direct laws for social behavior.
"Natural law is not sacred law," she said, "for each newly discovered law later proves to be a special case of a more comprehensive law. These laws are not handed down from above," she said; "they rather are formulas describing universal patterns of physical behavior."