Useful for cultural meaning and aesthetic experience, not health recommendations or a requirement to drink.
Notes 301–302, especially 98, report alcohol's lowest transformative-experience ratings in the cited festival study, below no substance. Personal anecdotes and literary passages are not experiments. Psychedelic and alcohol evidence must not be treated as interchangeable. Historical authors' positions remain attributed.
The chapter defends the value of pleasure and altered experience through philosophy, literature, festival accounts and research involving several substances. Slingerland explicitly adds a normative defense rather than relying only on instrumental benefits.
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Chapter 4, festivals and hedonism
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The chapter defends the value of pleasure and altered experience through philosophy, literature, festival accounts and research involving several substances. Slingerland explicitly adds a normative defense rather than relying only on instrumental benefits.
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Chapter 4, festivals and hedonism; supplied PDF pages 178–196. These are file page numbers, not print pagination.
Notes 301–302, especially 98, report alcohol's lowest transformative-experience ratings in the cited festival study, below no substance. Personal anecdotes and literary passages are not experiments. Psychedelic and alcohol evidence must not be treated as interchangeable. Historical authors' positions remain attributed.
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Useful for cultural meaning and aesthetic experience, not health recommendations or a requirement to drink.
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