Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate

Cover; Contents; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright; Dedication-I; Dedication-II; Foreword; Editors' Introduction; PART 1: THE FIRST CUP: COFFEE AND METAPHYSICS; Chapter 1: Coffee: Black Puddle Water or Panacea?; Chapter 2: The Necessary Ground of Being; Chapter 3: The Unexamined Cup is not Worth Drinking; Chapter 4: Samsara in a Coffee Cup: Self, Suffering, and the Karma of Waking Up; Chapter 5: The Existential Ground of True Community: Coffee and Otherness; PART 2: GROUNDS FOR DEBATE: COFFEE CULTURE; Chapter 6: Sage Advice from Ben's Mom, or: The Value of the Coffeehouse.;Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew, Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day with an entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and culture of coffee. Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffee discusses just how good coffee can beCaffeine-related chapters cover the ethics of the coffee trade, the metaphysics of coffee [...]and the centrality of the coffee house to the public sphereIncludes a foreword by Donald Schoenholt, President at Gillies Coffee Company.