Philosophical dietetics and symposium literature

Abstract

This article is part of the research project INICIO-2022-18. "Dietetics. Historical Phenomenology of Eating and Epistemology of Culinary Taste” funded by the Vice-Rector for Research of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

            Dietetics is a fertile philosophical field to investigate the material conditions of the contemporary subject. It is not limited to moral philosophy or the aesthetics of taste, since most contemporary moral debates separate dietetics from the ethics of care. This consideration prevents dietetics from being conceived as a critical reflection on food as a philosophical problem. If dietetics was historically a philosophical discipline that was dedicated to theoretical reflection between ethics, aesthetics and food, contemporary practical philosophy forgot these topics as it considered them "minor" problems, problems of technical solution ---not normative---, or problems with little philosophical performance. Therefore, the rehabilitation of dietetics as a philosophical discipline is based on the assumption that the question of the correct diet and the way of life have been philosophically associated with each other.