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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... Relation to Sex ( 1871 ) Friedrich Engels , Dialektik der Natur [ Dialectics of Nature ] ( 1883 ) Thomas Henry Huxley , Evolution and Ethics , and Other Essays ( 1893 ) Herbert Spencer , The Synthetic Philosophy ( completed 1896 ) Ernst ...
... Relation to Sex ( 1871 ) Friedrich Engels , Dialektik der Natur [ Dialectics of Nature ] ( 1883 ) Thomas Henry Huxley , Evolution and Ethics , and Other Essays ( 1893 ) Herbert Spencer , The Synthetic Philosophy ( completed 1896 ) Ernst ...
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... relations among these figures. Throughout early Greek literature, the all-seeing and all- revealing sun bears witness to every action in both the human and the di- vine domains, functioning as the ultimate monitor of events that even ...
... relations among these figures. Throughout early Greek literature, the all-seeing and all- revealing sun bears witness to every action in both the human and the di- vine domains, functioning as the ultimate monitor of events that even ...
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... relations between gods and men, profoundly far-reaching both in itself and as an example for human relations. This cosmic reorganization simultaneously moves men farther from the gods but closer to each other; they become each others ...
... relations between gods and men, profoundly far-reaching both in itself and as an example for human relations. This cosmic reorganization simultaneously moves men farther from the gods but closer to each other; they become each others ...
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... relations between gods, men, and the bounty of the earth. In the new mortal condition of separation from the gods, the previous model of com- mensality and sharing equally is replaced by a mode of transaction that will be the ...
... relations between gods, men, and the bounty of the earth. In the new mortal condition of separation from the gods, the previous model of com- mensality and sharing equally is replaced by a mode of transaction that will be the ...
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... relation of progeny to paternity ) can become a mystery , once the bios is hidden from men . What has also required explanation , the poem attests , is the appearance of the race of women and of human progeny — that is , our ...
... relation of progeny to paternity ) can become a mystery , once the bios is hidden from men . What has also required explanation , the poem attests , is the appearance of the race of women and of human progeny — that is , our ...
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Strana 46 - Thereafter, would that I were not among the men of the fifth generation, but either had died before or been born afterwards. For now truly is a race of iron, and men never rest from labour and sorrow by day, and from perishing by night; and the gods shall lay sore trouble upon them.
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