Rejecting reason-nature dualism must not banish the mechanical to a new lower class

Evidence

We should not aim to replace the dualism of reason and nature by a new dualism of the organic/ mechanical, in which moral and value status is achieved against an excluded and alien class in the form of the inorganic and mechanical world (Haraway 1991:127). — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 504

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the earlier ch3 note that social ecology inherits the colonising assumptions it opposes — same ‘new excluded class’ trap; bridges to ecofeminism’s critique of hierarchy-reversal. — connects to: The truism humans are animals is revolutionary because western culture denies it — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 51; Dualism renders the lower order a mere resource excluded from the moral sphere — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 218; Holism and dualism should be fluid complements, not rigid opposites (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Spiritualism and materialism are two halves of one Cartesian dualism, not opposites #expands (0.82) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 293
• Both nature’s mechanism and history’s determinism oppress the modern self #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 163
• Holism and dualism should be fluid complements, not rigid opposites #complicates (0.75)