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martes, 25 de junio de 2013

Cooking up a new philosophy

Philosophers and food? Shouldn’t thinkers traffic in higher realms? Plato thought so. Food offered little but a temptation to be resisted. Pastry chefs (cooking up the strongest temptations) provided a stock Platonic nemesis. Loftiness and theory, by contrast, are proper aspirations.

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