Plants As Persons

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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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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Matthew Hall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Release : 2011-05-06
File : 251 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781438434308


Buying Practices And Food Use Of Employee Food Services In Manufacturing Plants

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Genre : Food service management
Author : Rosalind Caribelle Lifquist
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Release : 1959
File : 1032 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105117855481


Plant Tours In The United States

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Genre : Industrial tours
Author : United States Travel Service
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Release : 1962
File : 88 Pages
ISBN-13 : OSU:32435014738496


Vick S Monthly Magazine

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Genre : Floriculture
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Release : 1884
File : 462 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015067055940


Federal Register

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Genre : Delegated legislation
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Release : 1968-03
File : 680 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCR:31210024906826


A Discussion Of The Cause Character And Operations Of The Creator

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Genre : Creation
Author : Harry B. Philbrook
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Release : 1887
File : 500 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044038394631


Disabled Usa

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Genre : Rehabilitation
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Release : 1979
File : 24 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951D006732270


Proceedings

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Genre : Horticultural societies
Author : New York State Horticultural Society
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Release : 1896
File : 1246 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000068835705


The Handbook Of Jamaica For

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Genre : Jamaica
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Release : 1928
File : 618 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCLA:L0054861844


Circular

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Genre : Agriculture
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Release : 1951
File : 988 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89038478798