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Auteur(s) : Daston, Lorraine (1951-....)
Titre(s) : Against nature [Texte imprimé] / Lorraine Daston
Traduction de : Gegen die Natur
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : the MIT press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (78 p.) : ill. ; 18 cm
Collection : Untimely meditations ; 17
Lien à la collection : Untimely meditations
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
Traduit de l'allemand
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
Sujet(s) : Philosophie de la nature
Droit naturel
Philosophie de l'homme
Indice(s) Dewey :
113 (23e éd.) = Cosmologie (philosophie de la nature)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780262537339. - ISBN 0262537338 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45584623z
Notice n° :
FRBNF45584623
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Table des matières : The problem: how does "is" become "ought"? ; Specific natures ; Local natures
; Universal natural laws ; The passions of the unnatural ; The very idea of order
; The plenitude of orders ; Conclusion: saving the phenomena.