we have had the philosophical debate around intoxicating consumables like alcohol, drugs and such since the ancient greeks. but what do we make of things like coffee and black/green tea? what did the old philosophers think of these? intoxicating? a useful tool? a crutch?
Just like with everything else, as Solon said, "Too much of anything hurts" and everything should be done in moderation.
>>25183400I don't remember where I read it, but there was this guy who wrote about how without coffee we never have had the enlightenment and the french revolution because a lot of the writers of the era loved to pull all-nighters where they used coffee as fuel for their intellectual projects.
>>25183408>enlightenment and the french revolutioniirc coffee-houses were a nice excuse to also get together and either talk radical ideas or start riots
>>25183400these things (coffee and tea) did not exist in their time
>>25183519surely some tea or coffee must have made their way through either the silk road or by the red sea upwards?
>>25183400I love this stupid fucking elf
>>25183400The Ancient Greeks didn’t have tea but rather a similar substitute known as Hydromel, a mixture of honey with yeast and water. Hydromel was used to treat diseases sometimes due to its ability to cause expectoration.>> Hydromel, when drunk in any stage of acute disease, is less suitable to persons of a bilious temperament, and to those who have enlarged viscera, than to those of a different character; it increases thirst less than sweet wine; character;the lungs, is moderately expectorant, and alleviates a cough; for it has some detergent quality in it, whence it lubricates the sputum. Hydromel is also moderately diuretic, unless prevented by the state of any of the viscera. And it also occasions bilious discharges downwards, sometimes of a proper character, and sometimes more intense and frothy than is suitable; I have actually drank Hydromel after reading about it and far more bitter tasting than pure honey is because it’s mixed with yeast.
>>25183404Even Hitler?
>>25183413Beer did that too.
>>25183400coffee is a vitamin, and more than eight cups a day increases your natural luck.
>>25183400This little goblin loved that shit. He couldn't have done it without it. Coffee has determined our philosophical path, get stuffed nigger.
