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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Against nature/ Lorraine Daton. [electronic resource]. |
| 개인저자 | Daston, Lorraine,1951- author. |
| 발행사항 | Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (96 pages): illustrations. |
| 총서사항 | Untimely meditations |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Daston, Lorraine, 1951- author. Gegen die Natur. English. Against nature 9780262537339 |
| ISBN | 9780262353809 0262353806 |
| 요약 | A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enlisted to illustrate and buttress moral orders. Revolutionaries and reactionaries alike have appealed to nature to shore up their causes. No amount of philosophical argument or political critique deters the persistent and pervasive temptation to conflate the 'is' of natural orders with the "ought" of moral orders. In this short, pithy work of philosophical anthropology, Lorraine Daston asks why we continually seek moral orders in natural orders, despite so much good counsel to the contrary. She outlines three specific forms of natural order in the Western philosophical tradition -- specific natures, local natures, and universal natural laws -- and describes how each of these three natural orders has been used to define and oppose a distinctive form of the unnatural. She argues that each of these forms of the unnatural triggers equally distinctive emotions: horror, terror, and wonder. Daston proposes that human reason practiced in human bodies should command the attention of philosophers, who have traditionally yearned for a transcendent reason, valid for all species, all epochs, even all planets. |
| 통일서명 | Gegen die Natur.English |
| 일반주제명 | Philosophical anthropology. Philosophy of nature. Ethics. Ethics. Philosophical anthropology. Philosophy of nature. SCIENCE / Cosmology |
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