Syllabus for

The Moral Authority of Nature
Taught by Lorraine Daston

(Brief version)

Aristotle, Physics II.1-8
Aristotle, NE II, III, V, VI, VII
Augustine, City of God, chs. 12-26
Aquinas, Summa, II-II, QQ. 153-54
--some secondary sources on Medieval Europe
Hobbes, Leviathan I.10-15; II.17, 20, 26
Grotius, Jur. Bell. Pac. Prolegomena, arts. 39-50; I.i.1-15; II.v.8-13
Boyle, Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
Hume, "Of Justice and Injustice"
Rousseau, 2^nd Discourse
Kant, 3^rd Critique, excerpts
Darwin, Descent of Man, excerpts
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, I, V

Also see my paper:
How The Rhetoric Of Nature Informs The Rhetoric Of The Ethics Of Cosmetics In A Discourse Of Artificial Beauty (1662)