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Many scholars have argued that the distinction between the natural and the unnatural does not have any moral relevance, either because the distinction does not make sense or because, even if it does make sense, it does not make any moral sense. Before we can decide on the latter, we must therefore determine first whether a semantic distinction can be made. In this article, I argue that the distinction can be maintained. In spite of the fact that the categories of the natural and the unnatural are blurred as no unnatural things are completely unnatural, I argue that we can meaningfully distinguish between different types of unnaturalness along the natural-unnatural spectrum. To my knowledge, this article is the first publication to distinguish between three types of unnaturalness.
Author(s): Deckers J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Environmental Values
Year: 2021
Volume: 30
Issue: 3
Pages: 297-318
Print publication date: 01/06/2021
Online publication date: 16/11/2020
Acceptance date: 23/05/2020
Date deposited: 16/11/2020
ISSN (print): 0963-2719
ISSN (electronic): 1752-7015
Publisher: The White Horse Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.3197/096327120X16033868459494
DOI: 10.3197/096327120X16033868459494
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