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Beer & Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn't Worth Drinking (book)

Cordwainer from Melville

Beer & Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn't Worth Drinking
Steven D. Hales (Editor), Foreword by Michael C. Jackson

Paperback, 233 pages with index.

2007. Excellent condition

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.

Price: $10

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Should the government levy industries that contribute to financial hardship?
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Make a hearty dish. Take just half a minute. Add four parts of kestrel. Then just add one. What have you made?

(Trev from Silverdale kindly provided this head-scratcher ... thanks, Trev!)

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