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 48
... means " animation , " means " inwardness , " means the presence of what the ancients called psyche or anima , soul . By this they did not mean a disembodied spirit , a ghost in a machine , a vital force super- added to an otherwise ...
... means " animation , " means " inwardness , " means the presence of what the ancients called psyche or anima , soul . By this they did not mean a disembodied spirit , a ghost in a machine , a vital force super- added to an otherwise ...
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... means " of survival as perception and emotion are never to be judged as means merely , but also as qualities of the life to be preserved and therefore as aspects of the end . It is one of the paradoxes of life that it employs means ...
... means " of survival as perception and emotion are never to be judged as means merely , but also as qualities of the life to be preserved and therefore as aspects of the end . It is one of the paradoxes of life that it employs means ...
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... means both " host " and " guest , " primarily because it also means " stranger " or " foreigner . " ( The origi- nal Latin root , hostis , from the Indo - European ghostis , means " stranger ” and “ enemy " ; this meaning lies behind ...
... means both " host " and " guest , " primarily because it also means " stranger " or " foreigner . " ( The origi- nal Latin root , hostis , from the Indo - European ghostis , means " stranger ” and “ enemy " ; this meaning lies behind ...
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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