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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... gives us the shapes and forms of things ( or , at least , of small things ) and permits their recognition . This cognitive ... give a full reintegration of the whole . The parts have to be un- derstood from the beginning as parts of that ...
... gives us the shapes and forms of things ( or , at least , of small things ) and permits their recognition . This cognitive ... give a full reintegration of the whole . The parts have to be un- derstood from the beginning as parts of that ...
Pagina 175
... give and to give cheerful- ly and well . He gives what is fitting , to those whom it fits , at appro- priate times and in the gracious manner . Generally speaking the liberal man gives for the sake of giving . Thus , for example , the ...
... give and to give cheerful- ly and well . He gives what is fitting , to those whom it fits , at appro- priate times and in the gracious manner . Generally speaking the liberal man gives for the sake of giving . Thus , for example , the ...
Pagina 176
... give not out of sur- plus but out of sacrifice . They point to the great praise reserved for those who give when they have next to nothing , who will deprive themselves to feed a stranger , who despite being poor act as if they were ...
... give not out of sur- plus but out of sacrifice . They point to the great praise reserved for those who give when they have next to nothing , who will deprive themselves to feed a stranger , who despite being poor act as if they were ...
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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