Questions about how one should live animated the early days of philosophy. From the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers through the Middle Ages, questions about
Category: Philosophy
A New Blog
This is not about wine or food. You know, I do think about other things sometimes. For those interested in philosophy, I have a new
What Wine Has Taught Me about Philosophy
Philosophy in its academic form has unfortunately become a forensic process of detecting flaws in someone’s ideas. Too many discussions degenerate into thinly disguised, tendentious
Philosophers Sometimes Say Dumb Things about Taste
The recently deceased Roger Scruton was a highly regarded philosopher and wine connoisseur who wrote one of the seminal books on the philosophy of wine.
Philosophy has Been Wrong About Wine for 2500 Years
Throughout most of philosophy’s history, wine has been treated as an insignificant diversion, incapable of being beautiful and incapable of producing genuine aesthetic pleasure. The
Creativity and Loaded Guns
Because I write about aesthetics and have had a life-long interest in art and music, I hold creativity and imagination in very high regard. My
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 