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

这个项目旨在揭开从古代到中世纪精神上的醉酒和身体上的醉酒之间未被发现但普遍存在的二分法。在柏拉图的启发下，基督教神学家颂扬醉酒是一种超理性状态的隐喻，在这种状态下，灵魂超越了理性的局限，而受到斯多葛哲学启发的基督教道德学家则谴责身体上的醉酒是从理性中坠落的。该项目将分析醉酒的文化史和思想史，目的是改变人们对中世纪思想家如何继承和转变异教徒关于饮酒的经典思想的欣赏。醉酒为改写理性的历史提供了一条迄今未被探索的道路，促使我们考虑我们对饮酒的根深蒂固的文化反应。

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.