On today’s episode, Megan and Frank work up the liquid courage to tackle one of philosophy’s most notorious recruiters: alcohol. Are we different people when we’re inebriated, or simply more free to act on our deepest desires? Was the prohibition movement justified? Is wine-tasting all bogus, or are sommeliers detecting something real? And does alcohol induce mystical experiences?
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Bibliography:
Cassius Dio, Roman History 49.36
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (mit.edu) (Book 2)
That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of Roman Stoic
Drunkenness: Losing Our Grip on Reason | Choosing Freedom A Kantian Guide to Life
Kirsten Ditterich-Shilakes, “Muse in a Stem Glass Art, Wine, and Philosophy”
Quill Kukla, “Nonideal Theory of Sexual Consent” |
Watch Prohibition | Ken Burns | PBS
The 1800s: When Americans Drank Whiskey Like it was Water
Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition became law
Kevin W. Sweeney, "Is There Coffee or Blackberry in My Wine?"
A.C. Noble |The Wine Aroma Wheel Official Website
Ophelia Deroy, "The Power of Tastes: Reconciling Science and Subjectivity"
Managing Diacetyl (“Buttery” Flavor) Production During MLF
Barry C. Smith, “The Objectivity of Tastes and Tasting”
Wine-tasting: it's junk science | Wine | The Guardian
Think wine connoisseurship is nonsense? Blind-tasting data suggest otherwise
A New Study Answers The Question: Does Blind Wine Tasting Work?
William James, “The Varieties of Religious Experience”
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