Drinking to Get Drunk: Pleasure, Creativity, and Social Harmony in Greece and China

Sarah Mattice

doi:10.1558/ccp.v3i2.243

Drinking to Get Drunk: Pleasure, Creativity, and Social Harmony in Greece and China

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Abstract

This essay examines the multifaceted roles of drinking parties in early Greece and in medieval China. It takes as paradigm examples descriptions of ritual intoxication in Plato's Laws and in the poetry of Ouyang Xiu and Mei Yaochen, arguing that these divergent cultural and philosophical traditions can be both related and made distinct through concepts of pleasure, creativity, and social harmony.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	243-253
Number of pages	11
Journal	Comparative and Continental Philosophy
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1558/ccp.v3i2.243
State	Published - Feb 13 2011

Keywords

Mei Yaochen
Ouyang Xiu
Plato
Plato's Laws
creativity
drinking
intoxication
literati
pleasure
social harmony
symposia

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Poetry
Epistemology
Sociology
Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Drinking to Get Drunk: Pleasure, Creativity, and Social Harmony in Greece and China

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