Against Nature

by Lorraine Daston

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262537338
• ISBN13: 9780262537339
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 6.8"