Beer and Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn’t Worth Drinking by Steven D. Hales

Beer and Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn’t Worth Drinking by Steven D. Hales

Print Length: 248 Pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: October 29, 2007
Language: English
ASIN: B003L784FM
ISBN-10: 1405154306
ISBN-13: 978-1405154307
File Format: MOBI
A beer-lovers’ book which playfully examines a myriad of philosophical concerns related to beer consumption.

– Effectively demonstrates how real philosophical issues exist just below the surface of our everyday activities
– Divided into four sections: The Art of the Beer; The Ethics of Beer: Pleasures, Freedom, and Character; The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Beer; and Beer in the History of Philosophy
– Uses the context of beer to expose George Berkeley’s views on fermented beverages as a medical cure; to inspect Immanuel Kant’s transcendental idealism through beer goggles, and to sort out Friedrich Nietzsche’s simultaneous praise and condemnation of intoxication
– Written for beer-lovers who want to think while they drink