The history of inebriation and reason from Plato to the Latin Middle Ages

这个项目旨在揭示从古代到中世纪精神醉酒和身体醉酒之间未被发现但普遍存在的二分法。基督教神学家受柏拉图的启发，将醉酒视为一种超理性状态的隐喻，在这种状态下，灵魂超越了理性的限制，而基督教道德家受斯多葛派哲学的启发，谴责身体醉酒是从理性中堕落。该项目将分析醉酒的文化和思想史，目的是改变人们对中世纪思想家如何继承和改造异教经典饮酒思想的认识。醉酒提供了一条迄今为止尚未探索的重写理性历史的道路，敦促我们考虑我们对饮酒的文化根深蒂固的反应。

This project aims to uncover the undetected but pervasive dichotomy between spiritual inebriation and physical drunkenness from antiquity to the Middle Ages. While Christian theologians, inspired by Plato, celebrated inebriation as a metaphor for a hyper-rational state in which the soul transcends the limitations of reason, Christian moralists, inspired by Stoic philosophy, condemned physical drunkenness as fall from reason. The project will analyse the cultural and intellectual history of inebriation with the aim of changing appreciation of how medieval thinkers inherited and transformed pagan classical ideas about drinking. Inebriation provides a hitherto unexplored path to rewriting the history of reason, urging us to consider our culturally-ingrained reactions to drinking.