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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... term “naturalization,” in current English usage perhaps the most common way of describing nature's authority in human affairs. “Nat- uralization” in this sense means to shore up a social convention (for ex- ample, reading from left to ...
... term “naturalization,” in current English usage perhaps the most common way of describing nature's authority in human affairs. “Nat- uralization” in this sense means to shore up a social convention (for ex- ample, reading from left to ...
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... term to the more “natural” (in our view) plants and animals fails to illuminate modern sensibilities: didn't these strains flourish equally “naturally,” or still more so, in their lands of origin? Moreover, why use the term “naturalize ...
... term to the more “natural” (in our view) plants and animals fails to illuminate modern sensibilities: didn't these strains flourish equally “naturally,” or still more so, in their lands of origin? Moreover, why use the term “naturalize ...
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... term ziran , which like the Japanese shizen became standard only in the late nineteenth century.1o Nothing even approximating a full - dress account of the multiple meanings and histories of the word " nature " and its cognates ( or ...
... term ziran , which like the Japanese shizen became standard only in the late nineteenth century.1o Nothing even approximating a full - dress account of the multiple meanings and histories of the word " nature " and its cognates ( or ...
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... terms of worth blurred eco- nomic , moral , and aesthetic categories . “ Due measure , ” “ abundance , ” " utility , " and " pleasure ” —such is the coin of nature's value . The essays in this section explore the subtle processes by ...
... terms of worth blurred eco- nomic , moral , and aesthetic categories . “ Due measure , ” “ abundance , ” " utility , " and " pleasure ” —such is the coin of nature's value . The essays in this section explore the subtle processes by ...
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... terms, concepts, and prob- lematic relations that will inform the rest of this essay, in which I propose to explore the relationship of nature to morality within the context of the philosopher's antecedents among the poets of early ...
... terms, concepts, and prob- lematic relations that will inform the rest of this essay, in which I propose to explore the relationship of nature to morality within the context of the philosopher's antecedents among the poets of early ...
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