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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... body , a separate being that flees the body on death . Rather , psyche referred to and comprised all the inte- grated vital powers of a naturally organic body , always possessed by such a body while it is alive . Not the property of the ...
... body , a separate being that flees the body on death . Rather , psyche referred to and comprised all the inte- grated vital powers of a naturally organic body , always possessed by such a body while it is alive . Not the property of the ...
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... body sometimes " revolts , " for example , in hiccoughing , destroying the easy flow of both words and food . * The ... body . Here , ironically , the body's revolt against speech turns out in fact to be not rebellion but “ rational ...
... body sometimes " revolts , " for example , in hiccoughing , destroying the easy flow of both words and food . * The ... body . Here , ironically , the body's revolt against speech turns out in fact to be not rebellion but “ rational ...
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... body dualists the unity of body and soul ( for which I argued in the last two chapters ) , and that their act of human sacrifice proves their appreciation of the incarnation of spirituality , which they make manifest symbolically in the ...
... body dualists the unity of body and soul ( for which I argued in the last two chapters ) , and that their act of human sacrifice proves their appreciation of the incarnation of spirituality , which they make manifest symbolically in the ...
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