Nature’s kinship is affirmed in difference, not only by mirroring the self

Evidence

We can instead recognise in the myriad forms of nature other beings—earth others—whose needs, goals and purposes must, like our own, be acknowledged and respected. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 508

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the respect-and-individuation ethics here to the earlier ch21 ‘mind spread into nature implies weak, not strong panpsychism’ — kinship without assimilation. — connects to: Justice to nature can rest on shared qualities without erasing difference — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 449; Self forms through recognizing an other both alike and different — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 582; Individual subjectivity emerges through the soul’s progressive self-differentiation from universal nature — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 318 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Justice to nature can rest on shared qualities without erasing difference #corroborates (0.93) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 449
• Self forms through recognizing an other both alike and different #corroborates (0.85) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 582
• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself #expands (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378
• The other’s love reveals the self by exposing its own otherness #corroborates (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1884
• Individual subjectivity emerges through the soul’s progressive self-differentiation from universal nature #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 318