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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... physical . Allen sug- gests that the principal attraction of the beehive in the history of Western political thinking has been precisely its utility as a way of imagining soci- ety, otherwise so elusive: compact and surveyable, the hive ...
... physical . Allen sug- gests that the principal attraction of the beehive in the history of Western political thinking has been precisely its utility as a way of imagining soci- ety, otherwise so elusive: compact and surveyable, the hive ...
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... physical and psychological makeup and destiny.14 Its echoes have rever- berated throughout the twentieth century—and into the HGP—in de- bates over the inheritance of intelligence, the origins of sexual orientation and racial ...
... physical and psychological makeup and destiny.14 Its echoes have rever- berated throughout the twentieth century—and into the HGP—in de- bates over the inheritance of intelligence, the origins of sexual orientation and racial ...
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... Physical World and of the Moral World ] (1770) Denis Diderot, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville [Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville] (1772) Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Geschichte und Beschreibung der Knochen des menschlichen ...
... Physical World and of the Moral World ] (1770) Denis Diderot, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville [Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville] (1772) Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Geschichte und Beschreibung der Knochen des menschlichen ...
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