Separating nature from value stripped humans of intrinsic worth too

Evidence

If we consider that the eminent effect of this Distinction was to remove value from nature, it is easy to see that humans, being an essential part of nature, especially the naked Adamic nature, have been deprived of value as well. They are no longer the creation of a higher deity, endowed in their essence with value precisely because they hail from a divine architecture and design. And the more naked they are, the lower their value is in the chain of being. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 399

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The structural claim — that devaluing nature cascades into devaluing humanity by degree of proximity to a ‘naked’ natural state — is a dense, paradigm-shifting insight about how the nature/value split launders hierarchies.
• XREF: connects to: Scientific quantification of nature parallels society’s reduction of humans to abstract labor power. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 583; Human mastery over nature dialectically increases human dependency on matter. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 495; Viewing humans as separate from nature enables resource exploitation without conscience. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1009 (+6 more)