Both assimilation to self and total alienness are dualistic errors about nature.

Evidence

These dilemmas surrounding the concept of wilderness arise in part from the dualistic choice between on the one hand an excessive emphasis on continuity and community with nature denying the possibility of difference between the non-human and the human (incorporation), and on the other hand retaining the gulf between the human and the natural, thus denying the possibility of continuity and community on the other (alienation). To escape the dilemma, we must be able to recognise and value both continuity and difference with the other. It is inevitable, given a situation where there is a network of continuity and difference, that different individuals and groups will choose to emphasise one aspect over the other. But stereotyping wilderness in either of these ways, as Same or as Stranger, indicates the dilemmas of difference symptomatic of unresolved dualism. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 609

Categorization

• XREF: Names the exact dualistic dilemma structuring the deep-ecology versus wilderness-preservation debate, building on earlier chapters’ framing of self-other recognition; useful against Merchant for the structure of domination. — connects to: Hyperseparation from nature is healed by neither secession nor boundary dissolution — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 669; Resolving nature dualism needs reconceiving humans as more natural and nature as more mindlike — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 465; Dualism demands hyperseparation achieved by magnifying differences and denying shared qualities — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 201 (+3 more)
• DEFINE: Defines incorporation and alienation as the twin poles of difference-denial in nature ethics, each a symptom of unresolved dualism.

Broader Connections

• Materialism never resolves but only disguises nature dualism by a truncated reversal #exemplifies (0.92) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 452
• Dualism demands hyperseparation achieved by magnifying differences and denying shared qualities #expands (0.90) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 201
• Resolving nature dualism needs reconceiving humans as more natural and nature as more mindlike #expands (0.88) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 465
• Dualism arises from denied dependency on a subordinated other. #expands (0.85) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 173
• Dualism renders the lower order a mere resource excluded from the moral sphere #expands (0.82) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 218