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What we are left with in this second section of the chapter is a moral commitment to care for Nature. This moral commitment is based upon what Nature is (a series of concentric and overlapping human and Natural communities that are symbiotic). As humans, the study of Nature creates the value/duty relationship that outlines the ground of general moral duty from the human side. Then, this general ground becomes more practical when it is specified that there is a moral prohibition not to interfere in a harmful way with our human makings because Nature stands in relation to all of us as “maker.” As such, Nature’s makings (which includes us) requires the respect owed to a maker not to have its own artifacts come back to harm it. This second principle grounds our practical duties to Nature and acts as a firm moral limitation on human technology.

1 ssss1 I am following W.D. Ross’s text Aristotle’s Prior and Posterior Analytics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949). My translation is of: 89b 23−25: Τὰ ζητούμευά ἐστιν ἴσα τὸν ἀριθμὸν ὅσαπερ ἐπιστάμεθα. ζητοῦμεν δὲ τέττρα, τὸ ὅτι, τὸ διότι, εἰ ἔστ, τί ἐστιν.