Book of the Day: The Moral Authority of Nature, edited by Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal. Publisher: University of Chicago Press.
Whether made explicit or merely implicit, the principle of 'it's unnatural, therefore it’s wrong' appears in a wide variety of arguments for a great many positions. It’s likely that as far back as people could even think about it, they have connected what is good, beautiful, or proper with what they assume to be “natural.” We can find it in literature, ethics, science, philosophy, and religion.
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