The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our NatureFree Press, 1994 - 248 pagini What is the full meaning of eating? What does it reveal about the soul? What is the meaning of human omnivorousness and the myriad customs that refine human eating, transforming animal feeding into human dining? This book examines the phenomena of eating, natural and cultural - from metabolism, appetite, and taste, to hospitality, table manners, and the ritual meal, and reveals how eating not only feeds the body but also nourishes the soul. |
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Pagina 25
... become part of the lover , and the two do not become one flesh , except derivatively in the children that may issue from such sexual coupling . But when we are at work on the world in eating , we do not become the something that we eat ...
... become part of the lover , and the two do not become one flesh , except derivatively in the children that may issue from such sexual coupling . But when we are at work on the world in eating , we do not become the something that we eat ...
Pagina 78
... become the persons they think they would like to be , in light of the competing offers of their nature and with no guarantee of success . The rational animal is an ambiguous animal , indeed often a highly questionable animal , even with ...
... become the persons they think they would like to be , in light of the competing offers of their nature and with no guarantee of success . The rational animal is an ambiguous animal , indeed often a highly questionable animal , even with ...
Pagina 153
... become second nature . Yet even at home there can be embarrassments when the reliable forms fail : Consider , for example , the dilemma we face when our food cannot be cut because we lack a sharp - enough knife . The removal of the need ...
... become second nature . Yet even at home there can be embarrassments when the reliable forms fail : Consider , for example , the dilemma we face when our food cannot be cut because we lack a sharp - enough knife . The removal of the need ...
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activity appetite Aristotle awareness Babette Babette's feast become begin bodily body bread bread and salt Brillat-Savarin cannibalism carnivores cells Chapter chewing civilized common conversation creatures cultural customs Cyclops desire dietary laws dining dinner party distinction divine drink earth eater edible especially ethical example eyes fact feed flesh freedom fruit Genesis grace guests hand holy hospitality host human eating human form hunger Ibid incisors kind least Leo Strauss Leviticus liberality living form living things look man's manifest Margaret Visser material matter meal means meat metabolism mind moral motion mouth nature necessity neediness Nicomachean Ethics nourishing Odysseus omnivorousness one's organism ourselves philosophical pleasures Polyphemos possible powers present principle psychic question rational rational animal reason regarding relation salt self-conscious sense separation share sight social soul speak speech strangers taste tion tongue Torah transformation true unclean upright posture vegetarian virtue whole wine