BONUS CONTENT: Descartes' Last Book and Tasting as Self-Perception
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Everyone really seemed to like that Kant video from a few weeks back ( • BONUS CONTENT: On Imma... ), so I thought I'd do another philosophy-as-related-to-spirits kind of discussion. And this time it's on The Passions of the Soul - the very last book ever written by Descartes (yes, the arch-rationalist "I think therefore I am" guy), where he quietly sets the foundations for the anti-rationalist reactions that would follow over the next 200+ years.
The relevant takeaway, typically coming right at the end, is that enjoying a fine spirit (so long as you're not just drinking it) involves a genuine and quite important kind of self-perception, if not also self-cultivation. Along the way we'll be dealing with Renaissance theological psychology after Aristotle, the Fifth Lateran Council and its condemnation of Pietro Pomponazzi, the special status of the will in modern philosophy, and why a real distinction between mind and body can actually lead to good evidence of you being more your body than your mind. Have fun and pour something nice, this might take awhile.
OH ALSO, the channel finally has a dedicated email - hit me up at differentspirits@proton.me - and I'm finally working on a Discord server for Patreon supporters. Incidentally, thank you very, very much to my Different Spirits on that aforementioned Patreon ( / differentspirits ) -
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THIS is what no other spirits reviewer can give us. THIS is why we like you.
Thank you sir! It's an unbelievably tiny niche but it's _my_ niche. 😂
This is epic!
A history of philosophy through spirits!
You should do a whole episode dedicated to "The phenomenology of spirit(s)"!
Thank you! The thing is, there actually are books out there on this stuff. Philosophy of whisky, wine, that kind of thing. And I've read a few and... I honestly don't like them very much. Like, when they're not anchored down by very specific questions, there's a tendency to spin off into some mix of cliche or romanticising or low key defense of some social/cultural/economic status quo. To run with the "phenomenology" thing (and yes yes yes I get the Hegel joke but I want to take the idea seriously 😂), it's worth remembering that even Husserl always wrote his books as responses to specific problems or confusions (Ideas I against bad naturalisms/positivisms, etc.). So if anything, I kinda wanna do that... 😁
Great video!!
Thank you! 😁