Plants as Persons- A Philosophical Botany

Plants as Persons- A Philosophical Botany

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Book Specification

Item Code: UAQ020
Author: Matthew Hall
Publisher: Dev Publishers and Distributors
Language: English
Edition: 2021
ISBN: 9789387496491
Pages: 240
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 9.00 X 6.00 inch
Weight 320 gm

Book Description

About the Book
Plants are people too? Not exactly, 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 and botanical history, for attitudes toward plants, noting the particular resources for plant personhood and those modes of thought that 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 recipients of care and respect. New scientific findings encourage this perspective, reveal ing that plants possess many of the capacities of sentience and mentality traditionally denied them.

About the Author
Matthew Hall is a research scientist at the Centre f Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

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