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Gardening philosophy for everyone : cultivating wisdom
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1st ed
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GARDENING PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Planting the Seed: An Introduction to Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone; PART I THE GOOD LIFE; 1 The Virtues of Gardening; 2 Cultivating the Soul: The Ethics of Gardening in Ancient Greece and Rome; 3 Escaping Eden: Plant Ethics in a Gardener's World; 4 Food Glorious Food; PART II FLOWER POWER; 5 Plants, Prayers, and Power: The Story of the First Mediterranean Gardens; 6 Brussels Sprouts and Empire: Putting Down Roots; 7 Transplanting Liberty: Lafayette's American Garden
8 Cockney Plots: Allotments and Grassroots Political ActivismPART III THE FLOWER SHOW; 9 Hortus Incantans: Gardening as an Art of Enchantment; 10 Gardens, Music, and Time; 11 The Pragmatic Picturesque: The Philosophy of Central Park; PART IV THE COSMIC GARDEN; 12 Illusions of Grandeur: A Harmonious Garden for the Sun King; 13 Time and Temporality in the Garden; 14 Cultivating Our Garden: David Hume and Gardening as Therapy; PART V PHILOSOPHERS' GARDENS; 15 The Garden of the Aztec Philosopher-King; 16 Epicurus, the Garden, and the Golden Age
17 Gardener of Souls: Philosophical Education in Plato's PhaedrusNotes on Contributors
Philosophy and gardens have been closely connected from the dawn of philosophy, with many drawing on their beauty and peace for philosophical inspiration. Gardens in turn give rise to a broad spectrum of philosophical questions. For the green-fingered thinker, this book reflects on a whole host of fascinating philosophical themes.Gardens and philosophy present a fascinating combination of subjects, historically important, and yet scarcely covered within the realms of philosophyContributions come from a wide range of authors, ranging from garden writers and gardeners,
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