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Ought vs. Is: Reclaiming nature as a moral guide
- Dec 6, 2019
- In the Media
- Dept. Daston
- Lorraine Daston
Why do human beings across cultures and throughout history insist on using nature as a guide for our behavior, our politics, our moral and ethical systems?
Lorraine Daston for CBC radio on how she wrote Against Nature— a book she describes as a work of "philosophical anthropology"—to answer that very question.