@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Singer,Peter}, subject = {Nature}, note = {Singer I 4 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 people and their creations, or... I 5 b) nature is, as the world is, independent of humans. In the sense of a) nothing what humans can do is unnatural, in the sense of b) one cannot conceive that human action is "unnatural" as a reproach because everything is then an interaction with nature and much of it is desirable. >Actions, >Ethics, >Morals, >Humans, >Human nature, >World, >World/thinking. 1. J. St. Mill, 'On nature' In: Nature, The Utility of Religion and Theism. 1874, New Edition: Watts & Co., The Rationalist Press, 1904.}, note = { SingerP I Peter Singer Practical Ethics (Third Edition) Cambridge 2011 SingerP II P. Singer The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. New Haven 2015 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=509159} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=509159} }