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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... earth is not even the center of its own solar system , which in turn is nothing like the center of our allegedly boundless universe , by definition incapable of having a spatial center . But , pace Coperni- the earth may still be the ...
... earth is not even the center of its own solar system , which in turn is nothing like the center of our allegedly boundless universe , by definition incapable of having a spatial center . But , pace Coperni- the earth may still be the ...
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... earth and seas ; and second , the earth's putting forth of vegetation , after its kind . The second three days bring creatures that all have locomotion , beginning with the creation of the heavenly lights on day four ; day five brings ...
... earth and seas ; and second , the earth's putting forth of vegetation , after its kind . The second three days bring creatures that all have locomotion , beginning with the creation of the heavenly lights on day four ; day five brings ...
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... earth , seas ; or else ... they do not fill a whole region but [ fill ] a place within a region , within the sea , within heaven , on earth . The things which fill a place within a region either lack local motion - the plants ; or they ...
... earth , seas ; or else ... they do not fill a whole region but [ fill ] a place within a region , within the sea , within heaven , on earth . The things which fill a place within a region either lack local motion - the plants ; or they ...
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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