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Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is the coauthor (with Katharine Park) of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 and (with Peter Galison) Objectivity and the editor of Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science, all three published by Zone Books.
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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.
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A nuanced picture of nature's reign over the human imagination about perfect moral orders. Yet the generic account of nature as malleable, multiple, and fraught with contradictions tends to elude the tangible contention between those who try to overcome "human nature" and the ones who simply seek to tame it.
评分The abundance of orders in nature does not justify the appeals to natural order as disinterested in hierarchization and establishment of the proper. Beyond specific limitation, the different forms that anthropomorphism could take still work towards a placement of human beings within nature, without privilege.
评分The abundance of orders in nature does not justify the appeals to natural order as disinterested in hierarchization and establishment of the proper. Beyond specific limitation, the different forms that anthropomorphism could take still work towards a placement of human beings within nature, without privilege.
评分A nuanced picture of nature's reign over the human imagination about perfect moral orders. Yet the generic account of nature as malleable, multiple, and fraught with contradictions tends to elude the tangible contention between those who try to overcome "human nature" and the ones who simply seek to tame it.
评分The abundance of orders in nature does not justify the appeals to natural order as disinterested in hierarchization and establishment of the proper. Beyond specific limitation, the different forms that anthropomorphism could take still work towards a placement of human beings within nature, without privilege.
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