Flowers and Honeybees : A Study of Morality in Nature

Christopher Ketcham

ISBN 10: 9004430962 / ISBN 13: 9789004430969

Published by Brill Mai 2020, 2020

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Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flowers and Honeybees : A Study of Morality in Nature
• Publisher: Brill Mai 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004430962
• ISBN 13: 9789004430969
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 155H x 14D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 345 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Christopher Ketcham, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Houston Downtown where he taught risk management and ethics. Chris has published in The Journal of Animal Ethics, Space Policy Journal, Marcel Studies, Philosophical Inquiries, and Journal of the Philosophy of Life.