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 174
... liberality , the virtue par ex- cellence — as the name implies - of free human beings . When Aristotle , in his Nicomachean Ethics , turns to the moral virtues displayed in ordinary social or civic life , he places liberality at their ...
... liberality , the virtue par ex- cellence — as the name implies - of free human beings . When Aristotle , in his Nicomachean Ethics , turns to the moral virtues displayed in ordinary social or civic life , he places liberality at their ...
Pagina 175
... liberality is different from charity . It is distinguished also from justice , for liberal giving has nothing to do ... liberality , we see more clearly how excellence as a host is a manifestation of liberality . Though expenditure is ...
... liberality is different from charity . It is distinguished also from justice , for liberal giving has nothing to do ... liberality , we see more clearly how excellence as a host is a manifestation of liberality . Though expenditure is ...
Pagina 176
... liberality de- pends on a certain degree of emancipation from necessity ; one needs freedom from numbing toil and grinding poverty to be able to look upon life through the lens of liberality and nobility , of giving and living for the ...
... liberality de- pends on a certain degree of emancipation from necessity ; one needs freedom from numbing toil and grinding poverty to be able to look upon life through the lens of liberality and nobility , of giving and living for the ...
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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