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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Strana 4
... scientific , philosoph- ical , and religious traditions , archaic Greek and classical Arabic sources of- fer no single word that corresponds to " nature " as the sum total of the en- tire universe , although they do possess cognates to ...
... scientific , philosoph- ical , and religious traditions , archaic Greek and classical Arabic sources of- fer no single word that corresponds to " nature " as the sum total of the en- tire universe , although they do possess cognates to ...
Strana 5
... scientific texts pep- pered with references to nature , intellectuals in nineteenth- and twentieth- century China and Japan had creative recourse to a web of words : in Japa- nese , these included manbutsu ( “ the myriad objects " ) as ...
... scientific texts pep- pered with references to nature , intellectuals in nineteenth- and twentieth- century China and Japan had creative recourse to a web of words : in Japa- nese , these included manbutsu ( “ the myriad objects " ) as ...
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... scientific disinterestedness are thus intertwined , both doctrines emerging at the turn of the nineteenth century , in stark contrast to En- lightenment assertions about the normative dictates of nature and the Introduction : 7.
... scientific disinterestedness are thus intertwined , both doctrines emerging at the turn of the nineteenth century , in stark contrast to En- lightenment assertions about the normative dictates of nature and the Introduction : 7.
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... scientific enterprise of the late twentieth century, the Human Genome Project (HGP) has given rise to fierce debates that are still partially shaped by older categories. In 1874, for example, the British polymath and eugenicist Francis ...
... scientific enterprise of the late twentieth century, the Human Genome Project (HGP) has given rise to fierce debates that are still partially shaped by older categories. In 1874, for example, the British polymath and eugenicist Francis ...
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... scientific revolution of the seven- teenth century) or all nature really art (the promise of the genetic revolu- tion of the twenty-first century), then the ironies of Sheeler's painting dis- solve into a plain statement of fact. At ...
... scientific revolution of the seven- teenth century) or all nature really art (the promise of the genetic revolu- tion of the twenty-first century), then the ironies of Sheeler's painting dis- solve into a plain statement of fact. At ...
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