Are there known philosophers that did drugs? : r/askphilosophy
/r/askphilosophy aims to provide serious, well-researched answers to philosophical questions. Don't get me wrong, I'm a history and philosophy student but sometimes I can't keep myself from thinking 'was this dude high or...' because sometimes the things they wrote or said are so meta and so far fetched i can't even get my head around the train of thoughts they have written down. So I thought there maybe were philosophers that actually philosophised on drugs? Walter Benjamin wrote a book on hashish. Aldous Huxely probably did every drug on the planet, twice. Guy Debord drank something like a liter of vodka everyday of his life. I remember hearing about a Dadaist who got hired to give a lecture on Dada so he got blackout drunk before the show, rambled incoherently for a short while, vomited, and passed out. The thing that one most often needs to remember is that very few philosophers have more than a few original ideas in their lifetime. Much of what appears meta and far fetched, at lea
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