first nature

is original nature, pristine, God-given, (the stuff of natural sciences). Second nature involves social structures, economic institution and altered environments.

Following Cicero, Hegel (1970) recognized a distinction between first and second nature. First nature was original, pristine, god-given, the stuff of natural science, while second nature comprised the system of social structures, economic institutions, legal and state edificies, and altered environments.' (Kuper social science encyclopedia

first nature, n.Definitions

first nature