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Posted: 19 Dec 2018

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Epiphytes

Epiphytes
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An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.
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. . . Flourishing, as we are asked to understand it by contemporary philosophers who work on the ancients, is a superordinate theoretical concept rooted in Aristotle’s biology. Each kind of thing has its proper function (ergon); a think is a good or examplary member of its kind if it satisfied its proper function, if it actualizes its proper potential. A nonconscious plant flourishes if it grown in nutritious soil, in a favorable climate, with whatever amoaunts of sun and rain it needs, resists the vicissitudes of weather and pests by luck or its own strength, and grows and survives as a hearty, well-formed member of its kind. The conditions of being a healthy Oak or cactus or orchid are objective in the sense that there isn’t anything it is like subjectively for the plant to flourish, since there is nothing it is like be a plant for the plant. This is the reason it makes sense to speak of plants as flourishing, but is odd to speak of a happy oak or cactus or orchid. Aristotle, in fact, explicitly states that one cannot properly speak of a plant in view of offer is that eudaimonistic terms, as eudaimon. This might seem confusing since the view on offer is that eudaimonia is best translated as “flourishing,” and Aristotle thinks, as we do, that it makes perfect sense to speak of plants flourishing. ~ Page 141
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