Resolving nature dualism needs reconceiving humans as more natural and nature as more mindlike

Evidence

For subject/object, mind/ nature and human/nature dualism, a non-reductive resolution requires both that we reconceive ourselves as more animal and embodied, more ‘natural’, and that we reconceive nature as more mindlike than in the Cartesian conception. This is a condition for remaking our relations with nature, and beings in nature, on the basis of recognising them not as things but as creative, self-directed, originative others. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 465

Categorization

• DEFINE: States Plumwood’s positive two-sided resolution (recognition of continuity AND difference), the anti-dualism thesis at the heart of the ecofeminist critique.
• XREF: Directly bridges to Merchant’s historical claim about mechanism and connects to the ‘truism humans are animals’ claim already extracted earlier in this book. — connects to: Mind’s spread into nature implies weak, not strong, panpsychism — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 495; Living without wild things divides humans into two fundamental kinds — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 2; The human concept carries masculine bias because gender and nature dualisms intertwine — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 140 (+8 more)