TY - BOOK ID - 46261107 TI - Against Nature PY - 2019 SN - 9780262537339 0262537338 9780262353809 0262353806 PB - Cambridge (Mass.): MIT press DB - UniCat KW - 08.36 philosophical anthropology, philosophy of psychology. KW - Ethics. KW - Natur. KW - Philosophical anthropology. KW - Philosophy of nature. KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Philosophy of nature KW - Ethics KW - cultuurfilosofie KW - 130.2 KW - ethiek KW - antropologie KW - natuur KW - filosofie KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Philosophy KW - Values KW - Nature KW - Nature, Philosophy of KW - Natural theology KW - Anthropology, Philosophical KW - Man (Philosophy) KW - Civilization KW - Life KW - Ontology KW - Humanism KW - Persons KW - Philosophy of mind UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46261107 AB - 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. ER -