Gluttony

One type of gluttony that Taylor talks about is one in which the agent immerses in the pleasure of eating. That is, the agent is so completely focused on his pleasure that he will remove himself from the world and his life will lack all substance (96). However, I don’t find this to be the case. I believe the agent will become so immersed in his pleasure that he will proceed to seek out different types of food, better types of food, different restaurants, and so forth. By taking this overindulgence, the agent has turned it into a passion, perhaps even a virtue. The agent immersed in the pleasure of eating has the desire to continue to have this pleasure. And so, the agent will become even more engaged in the world through his desire. So, it certainly is not the only case that the agent will digress into a life away from the world. That is only one extreme.
However, if it is the case that the agent indulgences in gluttony because he feels the desire to nourish since he is missing a part of the self, then I believe Taylor is correct. Because then the indulgence into gluttony is an attempt to make up for something the gluttonous are missing. This desire is an attempt to deceive themselves into believing that they are receiving nourishment, but not the correct kind. And so their self is missing an integral part which they are making up for through gluttony. And so through Taylor’s argument the gluttonous are lacking a flourishing life, since they don’t have a whole self.