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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... 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 as a problem ...
... 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 as a problem ...
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... ture referred to local circumstances as well as to universal regularities . It is of course still possible to imagine ( and find ) early modern instances of " naturalization " avant la lettre , but the authority of nature differs ...
... ture referred to local circumstances as well as to universal regularities . It is of course still possible to imagine ( and find ) early modern instances of " naturalization " avant la lettre , but the authority of nature differs ...
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... ture , sex more readily alterable than gender . Writing in the aftermath of World War II , Japanese political theorist Maruyama Masao also attacked the tyranny of nature in the name of political emancipation . In contrast to Frankfurt ...
... ture , sex more readily alterable than gender . Writing in the aftermath of World War II , Japanese political theorist Maruyama Masao also attacked the tyranny of nature in the name of political emancipation . In contrast to Frankfurt ...
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... ture versus nurture, nature versus society. The terms in this far-from- exhaustive list overlap but do not coincide; each is the product of a distinct historical context and shifts the authority of nature in a somewhat different ...
... ture versus nurture, nature versus society. The terms in this far-from- exhaustive list overlap but do not coincide; each is the product of a distinct historical context and shifts the authority of nature in a somewhat different ...
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... ture their final court of appeal : cases rest when they reach nature , whether led there by evidence or self - evidence . But nature can also be deployed as a means as well as an end of thought . Here its authority derives from the way ...
... ture their final court of appeal : cases rest when they reach nature , whether led there by evidence or self - evidence . But nature can also be deployed as a means as well as an end of thought . Here its authority derives from the way ...
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