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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463600603321

Titolo

The ideal of nature : debates about biotechnology and the environment / / edited by Gregory E. Kaebnick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-4214-0070-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

179/.1

Soggetti

Bioethics

Biotechnology - Moral and ethical aspects

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Disposing nature or disposing of it? : reflections on the instruction of nature / Kate Soper -- In defense of living nature : finding common ground in a medieval tradition / Jean Porter -- Nature as absence : the logic of nature and culture in social contract theory / Bruce Jennings -- Human nature without theory / Gregory E. Kaebnick -- Preserving the distinction between nature and artifact / Eric Katz -- Why "nature" has no place in environmental philosophy / Steven Vogel -- The appeal to nature / Bonnie Steinbock -- Thinking like a mountain : nature, wilderness, and the virtue of humility / Paul Lauritzen -- He did it on hot dogs and beer : natural excellence in human athletic achievement / David Wasserman -- Sport, simulation, and EPO / Nicholas Agar -- Common-sense morality and the idea of nature : what we can learn from thinking about therapy / William A. Galston -- Rawls, sports, and liberal legitimacy / Thomas H. Murray and Peter Murray.