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do you do you Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought

to you with the support of King's College London and the Lever Hume Trust, online at

W.W. history of philosophy.net. Today's episode, To The Lighthouse,

Fylo of Alexandria.

Here's the story of a man named Noah, who was busy with three boys of his own.

They were four men living altogether, but they were not alone.

In fact, they were surrounded by an extended family and two of every creature that crawls upon the earth and flies in the sky,

having delivered them from certain destruction in an arc that had been

built to precise specifications.

After making landfall, Noah showed where his priorities lay by immediately planting vines, turning the grapes into wine, and getting drunk.

The youngest of his sons saw him in this sorry state and fetch the other two who respectively covered up their naked father.

Once Noah sobered up and awoke, he was furious with the youngest son who had seen him so exposed, he cursed this son's son, his own grandson

Kanan condemning him and his descendants to servitude. As you know this rather

sorry tale appears in the Bible, in fact almost at the very beginning of the Bible in the ninth chapter of Genesis.

Whether you are a believer or not, you have to wonder, what is it doing there? Why would the Bible tell us that

Noah, savior of mankind and animal kind to boot, got senselessly drunk and was shamefully

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