What is "antinaturalism"

Antinaturalism or postnaturalism may refer to:

• Antinaturalism (sociology), the view in sociology that the natural world and the social world are different
• Antinaturalism (politics), a political movement in France positing that all human acts are natural, and that ecological preservation is important inasmuch as it is necessary for the well-being of sentient life, not because of some inherently sacred attribute of nature as a whole

Antinaturalism is a view in sociology which states that the natural world and the social world are different. It is closely related to antipositivism, and is the opposite of sociological naturalism.

Category:Sociological terminology

As a political movement in France, antinaturalism is closely linked to the animal welfare movement; some antinaturalists posit that any reference to Natural law, such as the reintroduction of wolf predators into a forest to curb deer overpopulation, is a form of speciesism, and encourage veganism in human beings as well as in predator animals, as a way of showing equal respect to the lives of prey as to the lives of predators.