Moral Biodiversitist Desheen Joins The Taoist Naturalists: Learning

By Christopher Mark Kohler

Intellectually precocious Desheen, morally vacant by ancestral osmosis, meets various moral people through life. In Chapter 1, her family embarks on a fall afternoon outing to a local protected nature park. A chance encounter exposes them to the first moral icon, and an event toward sunset emphasizes that moralities have opposing forces. Scenes for the first moral influence are bathed in a rising tide of First Nations history. In Chapter 2, the second influence is illuminated by Sri Lankan family heritage, thus cultural diversity becomes apparent as a subtheme. Biodiversity threads become more prominent, and conversations begin to explore the depths of an unrealized biodiversity-morality interaction. The second and third influences come during the tenth high school grade for Desheen and her best friend Leola. The third icon's morality is presented as a book release, during which a spectacle brews to illustrate people becoming hooked on personal visions of morality. The heated verbal jostle highlights confusion over this moral foundation, while Gomacker introduces us to additional moral possibilities, and the subtheme of existentialism. During a tense hockey game in their 11th school year, Leola's parents and other spectators display a real life example of the fourth main moral foundation. The same year, over a complex high school assembly discussion, attendees probe some alternate moral themes previously ventilated by Gomacker. Philosophy professors presenting at the assembly, encourage the school's biodiversity club to investigate morality's relation to biodiversity. After high school graduation, Desheen and Leola embark on a gap year adventure at two locations. Three new moral foundations are supplied, plus an expansion on cultural diversity. The fifth foundation comes in the coastal rainforest environmental context of a west Kanata First Nations community. A spiritual smudging ceremony provides deep discussion of moral items encountered thus far. North coast Tlingit First Nations Chief Anotklosh facilitates the discussion, where queries about the composition of a missing moral foundation become more prominent. The gap adventure then diverts to Center country, where sixth and seventh moral possibilities arise and interact with the missing foundation. Desheen finally realizes the icons as moral entities. She thus joins an abroad graduate program to embroider threads of morality and biodiversity. A rough start at a horse therapy ranch scrutinizes invasive species. Events with student colleagues and professors explicate the missing moral foundation, and lay out a method to research the relationship of morality and biodiversity. But the university experience turns sour, so Desheen accepts an offer to connect with Daoist Naturalists in Center country. Biodiversity and morality emerge hand in hand as a main theme, and intercultural interdisciplinarianism make major headway. Life starts looking up again for Desheen, until nature forces its harshness on humans. What remains is, A Moral Biodiversity Story for High School Students. This final chapter ends with a poem that mimics the short version of the D o D Jīng 道德经 (Tao Te Ching), by Chinese philosopher LǎoZǐ 老子 (Lao Tzu, Lao Tze老子), while infusing it with biodiversity words. Will it influence a future animated film on China biodiversity?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B085KBRWVV
• ISBN13: 9798622318474
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"