I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine
We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for the soul. And there is no better accompaniment to wine than philosophy. By thinking with wine, you can learn not only to drink in thoughts but to think in draughts.\ This good-humoured book offers...
Search in google:
The ancients had a solution to the alcohol problem: to wrap the drug in religious rituals, to treat it as the incarnation of a god and to marginalise disruptive behaviour. Gradually, under the discipline of ritual, prayer and theology, wine was tamed from its orgiastic origins to become a solemn libation to the Olympians and then the Christian Eucharist.But today we are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health as well as the rival opinion that a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. In Roger Scruton's opinion, these health fascists have poisoned a natural enjoyment. Scruton argues that while wine is an excellent accompaniment to food, it is even better with philosophy. By thinking with wine, you can learn to drink in thoughts and think in draughts.This is a good humoured book with many profound ideas at its core. In vino veritas.
1 Prelude 1Pt. 1 I Drink2 My Fall 93 Le Tour de France 294 News from Elsewhere 69Pt. 2 Therefore I Am5 Consciousness and Being 956 The Meaning of Wine 1177 The Meaning of Whine 1398 Being and Bingeing 165Appendix What to Drink With What 175Index of Subjects 199Index of Names 203Index of Wines 209
