The Moral Authority of NatureLorraine Daston, Fernando Vidal University of Chicago Press, 15. 8. 2010 - 526 strán (strany) 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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... cause and effect , or rather , reward and punishment . Slatkin quotes Hesiod's pronouncement : fertile lands , woolly sheep , and children who resemble their parents are the lot of the just . Conversely , nature strikes back at those ...
... cause and effect , or rather , reward and punishment . Slatkin quotes Hesiod's pronouncement : fertile lands , woolly sheep , and children who resemble their parents are the lot of the just . Conversely , nature strikes back at those ...
Strana 10
... cause human nature implies a species type, essence, or program (depend- ing on one's preference for old-fashioned or newfangled metaphors) that is at once a description and a prescription for how to act, think, and feel, discussions of ...
... cause human nature implies a species type, essence, or program (depend- ing on one's preference for old-fashioned or newfangled metaphors) that is at once a description and a prescription for how to act, think, and feel, discussions of ...
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... cause , to bolster its shaky political credentials with nature's authority . Just because that authority has been so widely commandeered , critics imagine nature as a kind of blank screen or mirror on which the most diverse human ...
... cause , to bolster its shaky political credentials with nature's authority . Just because that authority has been so widely commandeered , critics imagine nature as a kind of blank screen or mirror on which the most diverse human ...
Strana 12
... causes of crime. The controverted 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 ...
... causes of crime. The controverted 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 ...
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... causes of things, nature and art.20 On the front cover of this book, Charles Sheeler's 1943 painting The Artist Looks ... cause and effect. Within the framework of nature's moral au- thority, even the disorder wrought by earthquakes and ...
... causes of things, nature and art.20 On the front cover of this book, Charles Sheeler's 1943 painting The Artist Looks ... cause and effect. Within the framework of nature's moral au- thority, even the disorder wrought by earthquakes and ...
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