# Against Nature

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- Book: [Against Nature](https://www.bookquiver.com/lorraine-daston/against-nature) ([Against Nature.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lorraine-daston/against-nature.md))
- Authors: [Lorraine Daston](https://www.bookquiver.com/lorraine-daston)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6253-733-9
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2019-05-21
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...