Was there any philosophers that rationalized getting drunk?or any drunk philosophers?

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references would be appreciated

no wikipedia please

Answer 1

One should always be drunk. That’s the one thing that matters. In order not to feel the horrible burden of Time, which breaks your shoulders, and crushes you to the ground, one should be drunk without ceasing.

But on what? On wine, on poetry or on virtue, as it suits you. But get drunk.

And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the lonely gloom of your room, you wake up, the drunkenness already abated or completely gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that flies or groans or rolls or sings or speaks, ask everything what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock will answer: ‘Time to get drunk. In order not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk. Get drunk ceaselessly. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as it suits you.’

- Charles Baudelaire

Answer 2

Well,Nietzsche rationalized the Greek God of drunkeness Dionysus.Though,it was aimed more towards the intellectual mindset.Though,according to biographies he did drink at a certain time in his life.Though,it was never really hard drinking.

Answer 3

Omar Khayyam

Answer 4

Check William James (and ether, or maybe nitrous oxide). Nietzsche (and Dionysian outlook). And the rites of Eleusis in ancient Greece.

Answer 5

ask me when I'm drinking and I'll philosophize your ear off, and the bartender will probably let you drink for free as long as you keep listening to me so they don't have to

Answer 6

He was a wise man who invented beer....Plato.


Is that rationalized enough for you!0!

Answer 7

Jesus said in the book of james "man can not live on water alone have a little wine"

Answer 8

http://www.angelfire.com/mi/roseghost/philosophy.html