portada Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany (en Inglés)

Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Matthew Hall

Editorial

State University of New York Press

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

245

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.1x15.7x2 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781438434292

Categorías

Botánica y ciencias de las plantas
Filosofía ética y moral
Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany (en Inglés)

Matthew Hall (Autor) · State University of New York Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany (en Inglés)"

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.