The Moral Authority of NatureLorraine Daston, Fernando Vidal For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. The Moral Authority of Nature offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder, early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as "against nature," race and the origin of humans, ecological economics, and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in time and place, from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century China, medieval Europe to contemporary America. Scholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome The Moral Authority of Nature, which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic. Contributors: Danielle Allen, Joan Cadden, Lorraine Daston, Fa-ti Fan, Eckhardt Fuchs, Valentin Groebner, Abigail J. Lustig, Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, Katharine Park, Matt Price, Robert N. Proctor, Helmut Puff, Robert J. Richards, Londa Schiebinger, Laura Slatkin, Julia Adeney Thomas, Fernando Vidal |
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... Nature in Late Medieval Christian Culture, 207 Joan Cadden 9 : Nature on Trial: Acts “Against Nature” in the Law Courts of Early Modern Germany and Switzerland, 232 Helmut Puff 10 : Onanism, Enlightenment Medicine, and the Immanent ...
... Nature in Late Medieval Christian Culture, 207 Joan Cadden 9 : Nature on Trial: Acts “Against Nature” in the Law Courts of Early Modern Germany and Switzerland, 232 Helmut Puff 10 : Onanism, Enlightenment Medicine, and the Immanent ...
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... nature and cul- ture (or society, nurture, civilization, artifice), and exposures of ideologies and fallacies (naturalistic, pathetic).3 We are indebted to these earlier ex- plorations for identifying the problem of nature's authority ...
... nature and cul- ture (or society, nurture, civilization, artifice), and exposures of ideologies and fallacies (naturalistic, pathetic).3 We are indebted to these earlier ex- plorations for identifying the problem of nature's authority ...
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... nature was thought to be fixed by a balance of bodily humors known as a " complexion , ” which came in endless varieties but which lay beyond the power of individual choice to change - hence its utility as a means of penetrating ...
... nature was thought to be fixed by a balance of bodily humors known as a " complexion , ” which came in endless varieties but which lay beyond the power of individual choice to change - hence its utility as a means of penetrating ...
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... nature [ contra naturam ] " in late medieval and early modern sodomy trials , Helmut Puff ( essay 9 ) re- marks that within this legal framework , only individuals could act contra naturam , a phrase here resonant of both natural and ...
... nature [ contra naturam ] " in late medieval and early modern sodomy trials , Helmut Puff ( essay 9 ) re- marks that within this legal framework , only individuals could act contra naturam , a phrase here resonant of both natural and ...
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... nature of upbringing as the first nature of inborn human nature . For those who excoriated and burned his book , Mandeville's crime lay not so much in reducing virtue and good manners to self - interest , but rather in exposing allegedly ...
... nature of upbringing as the first nature of inborn human nature . For those who excoriated and burned his book , Mandeville's crime lay not so much in reducing virtue and good manners to self - interest , but rather in exposing allegedly ...
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