The Moral Authority of Nature

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20005926
AutoresLorraine Daston (0000-0002-0372-4747, Max Planck Society), Fernando Vidal, Fernando Vidal Fernández (0000-0003-3062-6496, Max Planck Society)
Ano2003
Data de publicação2003-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoMoral Authority of Nature (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7208/chicago/9780226136820.001.0001
OpenAlexW173877277
Open LibraryOL36781991M
ISBN9780226136820
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas97

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. 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 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

Epistemology · Political science · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · History · Moral and ethical aspects · Nature · Philosophy of nature