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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... feeding , and the beings that feed , arguing against modern sci- ence's corporealist hypothesis and seeking to establish the indepen- dence and supremacy of the living form in relation to its own materi- al . In the process I expose the ...
... feeding , and the beings that feed , arguing against modern sci- ence's corporealist hypothesis and seeking to establish the indepen- dence and supremacy of the living form in relation to its own materi- al . In the process I expose the ...
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... feed means to give food to another , to supply someone else with fod- der . A dog feeds her pups by suckling them ; a bird feeds her young by putting food into their mouths ; a farmer feeds his cattle by putting them out to graze and feeds ...
... feed means to give food to another , to supply someone else with fod- der . A dog feeds her pups by suckling them ; a bird feeds her young by putting food into their mouths ; a farmer feeds his cattle by putting them out to graze and feeds ...
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... feeding another feeder is liberal , that is , free . Necessity is thus the mother also of virtue . The host rises ... feeds guest , essen re- places fressen ; eating supplants feeding . Hospitality thus recognizes necessity and ...
... feeding another feeder is liberal , that is , free . Necessity is thus the mother also of virtue . The host rises ... feeds guest , essen re- places fressen ; eating supplants feeding . Hospitality thus recognizes necessity and ...
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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