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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Pagina 101
... host- one who lodges and entertains another in his home - stems from an Old French word ( oste , hoste ) that means both " host " and " guest , " primarily because it also means " stranger " or " foreigner . " ( The origi- nal Latin ...
... host- one who lodges and entertains another in his home - stems from an Old French word ( oste , hoste ) that means both " host " and " guest , " primarily because it also means " stranger " or " foreigner . " ( The origi- nal Latin ...
Pagina 103
... host to remember and recognize the god - like possibili- ties in all human beings , and not only in those who are near and dear . The sight of possible god - like - ness in the other inspires in the host god - like acts of generous ...
... host to remember and recognize the god - like possibili- ties in all human beings , and not only in those who are near and dear . The sight of possible god - like - ness in the other inspires in the host god - like acts of generous ...
Pagina 107
... host rises above his own necessitous scrambling , not by ignoring the importance of scrambling , but by doing it justice . Hospitality is at the same time an assertion against and a recognition of the given dog - eat - dog character of ...
... host rises above his own necessitous scrambling , not by ignoring the importance of scrambling , but by doing it justice . Hospitality is at the same time an assertion against and a recognition of the given dog - eat - dog character of ...
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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