Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone (PDF)

Acknowledgements (Dan O'Brien). Foreword (David E. Cooper). Planting the Seed: An Introduction to Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone (Dan O'Brien). Part I: The Good Life 1 The Virtues of Gardening (Isis Brook). 2 Cultivating the Soul: The Ethics of Gardening in Ancient Greece and Rome (Meghan T. Ray). 3 Escaping Eden: Plant Ethics in a Gardener's World (Matthew Hall). 4 Food Glorious Food (Helene Gammack). Part II: Flower Power 5 Plants, Prayers and Power: The Story of the First Mediterranean Gardens (Jo Day). 6 Brussels Sprouts and Empire: Putting Down Roots (Michael Moss). 7 Transplanting Liberty: Lafayette's American Garden (Laura Auricchio). 8 Cockney Plots: Allotments and Grassroots Political Activism (Elizabeth A. Scott). Part III: The Flower Show 9 Hortus Incantans: Gardening as an Art of Enchantment (Eric MacDonald). 10 Gardens, Music and Time (Ismay Barwell and John Powell). 11 The Pragmatic Picturesque: The Philosophy of Central Park (Gary Shapiro). Part IV: The Cosmic Garden 12 Illusions of Grandeur: A Harmonious Garden for the Sun King (Robert Neuman). 13 Time and Temporality in the Garden (Mara Miller). 14 Cultivating Our Garden: David Hume and Gardening as Therapy (Dan O'Brien). Part V: Philosophers' Gardens 15 The Garden of the Aztec Philosopher-King (Susan Toby Evans). 16 Epicurus, the Garden, and the Golden Age (Gordon Campbell). 17 Gardener of Souls: Philosophical Education in Plato's Phaedrus (Anne Cotton). Appendix A: Notes on Contributors.

Editors
DAN O'BRIEN is a Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, an Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham University, and an Associate Lecturer with the Open University.

Series Editor
FRITZ ALLHOFF is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.

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