When conservatives and reactionaries refer to Nature to justify their assertions about the inferiority of woman, the lesser capacities of dark races, the innate intelligence of children from the upper social strata, and the sickness of homosexuality, they have usurped naturalism. It remains the task of critique to refute this. Ultimately critique must at least be able to show that what Nature gives us has to be recognized as neutral and nontendentious so that every value judgment and every tendency can without doubt be understood as a cultural phenomenon. Even if Rousseau's good Nature has been discredited, he has at least taught us not to accept bad Nature as an excuse for social oppression.


p. 57 - Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983)

Peter Sloterdijk Quotes

When conservatives and reactionaries refer to Nature to justify their assertions about the inferiority of woman, the lesser capacities of dark races, ...

When conservatives and reactionaries refer to Nature to justify their assertions about the inferiority of woman, the lesser capacities of dark races, ...

When conservatives and reactionaries refer to Nature to justify their assertions about the inferiority of woman, the lesser capacities of dark races, ...

When conservatives and reactionaries refer to Nature to justify their assertions about the inferiority of woman, the lesser capacities of dark races, ...