Parts are defined in terms of wholes. Nature is mechanistic, like clockwork. Nature is spiritual, mental, or organic. Nature is material and independent of us. Nature is a human, mental construction.
Nature is an active, creative force or process, natura naturans .
Mind is immaterial but largely passive. All representations associate. Human freedom is the ego s but takes them as given by nature. The ego is prior to society. Man is individual, separated from man, An isolated human being is impossible.