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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... question of whether nature is or should be used in this fashion than on the how , why , and what of nature's authority in the human realm . The " is " can be easily established by following stories in the daily media on topics ranging ...
... question of whether nature is or should be used in this fashion than on the how , why , and what of nature's authority in the human realm . The " is " can be easily established by following stories in the daily media on topics ranging ...
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... questions of transgressive boundary crossings between the categories of nature and cul- ture (or society, nurture, civilization, artifice), and exposures of ideologies and fallacies (naturalistic, pathetic).3 We are indebted to these ...
... questions of transgressive boundary crossings between the categories of nature and cul- ture (or society, nurture, civilization, artifice), and exposures of ideologies and fallacies (naturalistic, pathetic).3 We are indebted to these ...
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... questions remain unresolved, even if the HGP seemed to herald victory for nature over nurture. Such a victory, however, would also signal nature's demise: nurture as control of persons and environments would become the means of creating ...
... questions remain unresolved, even if the HGP seemed to herald victory for nature over nurture. Such a victory, however, would also signal nature's demise: nurture as control of persons and environments would become the means of creating ...
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... questions about the value of nature in its most hardheaded economic form are front and center . Since the 1980s , courts have ruled that it is possible to patent human cell lines , arguing for the manufactured character of cell products ...
... questions about the value of nature in its most hardheaded economic form are front and center . Since the 1980s , courts have ruled that it is possible to patent human cell lines , arguing for the manufactured character of cell products ...
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