Plants are people too? No, but in this work of philosophical botany
Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of
plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons. Plants
constitute the bulk of our visible biomass, underpin all natural
ecosystems, and make life on Earth possible. Yet plants are considered
passive and insensitive beings rightly placed outside moral
consideration. As the human assault on nature continues, more ethical
behavior toward plants is needed. Hall surveys Western, Eastern,
Pagan, and Indigenous thought as well as modern science for attitudes
toward plants, noting the particular resources for plant personhood
and those modes of thought which most exclude plants. The most
hierarchical systems typically put plants at the bottom, but Hall
finds much to support a more positive view of plants. Indeed, some
indigenous animisms actually recognize plants as relational,
intelligent beings who are the appropriate recipeints of care and
respect. New scientific findings encourage this perspective, revealing
that plants possess many of the capacities of sentience and mentality
traditionally denied them.
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A Philosophical Botany
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ISBN
9781438434308
Publisert
2021
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Vendor
Suny Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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