Flowers and honeybees : a study of morality in nature / by Christopher Ketcham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ketcham, Christopher, author.

Series:

Critical plant studies ; Volume 6.

Critical plant studies ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020]

Summary:

Can we discover morality in nature? Flowers and Honeybees extends the considerable scientific knowledge of flowers and honeybees through a philosophical discussion of the origins of morality in nature. Flowering plants and honeybees form a social group where each requires the other. They do not intentionally harm each other, both reason, and they do not compete for commonly required resources. They also could not be more different. Flowering plants are rooted in the ground and have no brains. Mobile honeybees can communicate the location of flower resources to other workers. We can learn from a million-year-old social relationship how morality can be constructed and maintained over time.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Preface: Introducing the Meadow

Introduction

Optimization, MEP, and Mutualism

Emergence of the Flower and Honeybee Mutualism and Flower and Honeybee Ontology and Morphology

Flower and Honeybee Epistemology and Behavior

Epigenetics

The Good and the Emergence of Morality in the Flower and Honeybee Mutualism

Study Summary and a Critique of Maximization

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-42854-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004428546 DOI