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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... experienced and the world- as - known - by - modern - science is , of course , an old story . For exam- ple , according to obvious experience your dining room table is hard and solid , but according to atomic physics it is mainly empty ...
... experienced and the world- as - known - by - modern - science is , of course , an old story . For exam- ple , according to obvious experience your dining room table is hard and solid , but according to atomic physics it is mainly empty ...
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... experience of lack as hunger , in the full sense of the term , presupposes a nervous system sufficiently advanced to allow for the self - experience of inner states of being . But the essence of what , in such higher beings , comes to ...
... experience of lack as hunger , in the full sense of the term , presupposes a nervous system sufficiently advanced to allow for the self - experience of inner states of being . But the essence of what , in such higher beings , comes to ...
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... experience , without any deliberate effort on our part , the distinction between form and material ; in seeing we see or receive the looks of things without their stuff . Whatever the physics of the process , our psychic experience of ...
... experience , without any deliberate effort on our part , the distinction between form and material ; in seeing we see or receive the looks of things without their stuff . Whatever the physics of the process , our psychic experience of ...
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