Nature is what human perception and behavior make it, not a hallucination.

Evidence

This was, at the same time, Horkheimer and Adorno’s most detailed answer to the question of how the recollection of nature within humanity, which they mentioned again and again as the way out of the disaster, was to be conceived. Nature was as full of spirit and as alive as the vision and behaviour of humanity made it. But what people’s vision and behaviour made nature into was not merely a collective hallucination: that was what nature in fact really was. Human beings experienced, in nature, what they themselves were for nature. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1439

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that humans’ vision and behavior are ‘what nature in fact really was’ is dense and worth tracing against contemporary ecological thought.
• XREF: connects to: Nature is constructed by the mind’s synthetic activity from raw sense perceptions — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 167; Nature’s qualities are historical, not fixed, under human mastery — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 825; The mind is constituted by culture, not bare biology — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 431 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Nature is constructed by the mind’s synthetic activity from raw sense perceptions #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 167
• Perceived qualities exist objectively as the thing itself, not as subjective effects #contradicts (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 594
• Senses are not subjective channels but objective rules of worldly revelation. #contradicts (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 856
• Nature’s qualities are historical, not fixed, under human mastery #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 825
• Human society is a historical reality that appropriates nature rather than submitting to it #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 142
• Each species inhabits its own perceptual world or Umwelt, not a shared reality #expands (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1414
• The mind is constituted by culture, not bare biology #qualifies (0.70) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 431