Gustatory Aesthetics with Dave Monroe - The Michel Serres Project
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The Higher and Lower Pleasures of the Mind
In western philosophy, the body is seen as kind of an enemy. So socrates talks about being freed when he'se when he takes his his hemlock poison and sacrifices a crow toi'm sorry, on cock for healing. And so if we don't emphasize that, in some way, it's reductive of what makes human being special. If we give into this body of ours, that reduces us to the state of being beasts.
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