Against Nature by Lorraine Daston

96 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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 ...

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