ABSTRACT
Angela Kallhoff develops an approach to plant ethics that is based on the concept of ‘flourishing’. This concept has two aspects: it is a concept of the pre-moral notion of a ‘good life’ of a plant; simultaneously it is an empirical concept whose content is explained in research on the stress behavior of plants in botany. In particular, effects on flourishing can be divided into beneficial and into harmful effects. Kallhoff argues that the distinction of both types of effects is empirically sound and also morally significant. The chapter also argues that the claim to respect the flourishing of plants is justified. This leads to moral claims according to the spheres of human-nature relationship termed ‘wild nature’, ‘cultivated nature’ and ‘utilized nature’.
