Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Nature/Ethics/Mill/P. Singer: as J. St. Mill showed in "On Nature"⁽¹⁾, "nature" means either
a) everything that exists in the universe, including the human beings and their creations, or...
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b) Nature is what the world is, independent of humans.
In the sense of (a) nothing what humans do can be unnatural, in the sense of (b) one can not conceive the determination that human action is "unnatural" as a reproach because everything is then an interaction with nature and much of it is desirable.
>Ethics, >Actions, >World, >Reality, >World/Thinking.

1. J. St. Mill (1874). Nature, The utility of religion, and Theism. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer.