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Elizabeth Telfer discusses the importance of food in our individual lives, as well as the moral questions that arise from it. She discusses issues such as our obligations to those who are starving, the value of the pleasure of food, food as art, our duties to animals, and the moral virtues of hospitableness and temperance. Telfer shows how traditional philosophy, from Plato to John Stuart Mill, can illuminate these topics.
The importance of food in our individual lives raises moral questions from the debate over eating animals to the prominence of gourmet cookery in the popular media. Through philosophy, Elizabeth Telfer discusses issues including our obligations to those who are starving; the value of the pleasure of food; food as art; our duties to animals; and the moral virtues of hospitableness and temperance. Elizabeth Telfer shows how much traditional philosophy, from Plato to John Stuart Mill, has to say to illuminate this everyday yet complex subject.
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