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Food for Thought: Philosophy and Food

Food for Thought: Philosophy and Food

by ElizabethTelfer (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $67.86
Synopsis

Looking at the philosophical issues raised by food this short and accessible book questions the place food should have in our individual lives. It shows how traditional philosophy and its classic texts can illuminate an everyday subject.

$67.86

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10 in stock

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 148
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 19 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 0415133823
ISBN 13: 9780415133821

Media Reviews
... excellently illuminates some of the relationships philosophy has with food.
- Dialogue
The bulk of this book is about the nature of the values, the moral duties, and the moral virtues revolving around food. Telfer convincingly argues that eating and drinking have value beyond that which they have solely as necessities of life-a value which ties them to the exercise of our own autonomy and individuality, to our interest in friendship and hospitableness to others, and to our aesthetic and lifestyle interests..
-John W. Bender Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques
Telfer's clear arguments make this a useful text for undergraduates.
- Ethics