RT Article
T1 In Defence of Plant Personhood
JF Religions
VO 10
IS 5
SP 1
OP 12
A1 Hall, Matthew
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1671424689
AB The philosopher Michael Marder has asserted that animist engagement with plants involves a projection of human purposes and goals leading to veneration. He has also argued that an extension of a categorical concept of personhood underpins my previous work on plant personhood. This paper draws on the growing scholarship of animist traditions following the work of Hallowell to reject Marder's characterization of a naïve animist approach to plants. It draws on these insights from animist traditions to outline a relational plant personhood, which is fully realized only in grounded, situated relationships of care that seek to enable the flourishing of plants.
K1 Animism
K1 Care
K1 Ethics
K1 Kinship
K1 Personhood
K1 Plants
K1 relational autonomy
K1 Subjectivity
DO 10.3390/rel10050317