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. |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 3 din 24
Pagina 46
... object , and , as we shall see ( in Chapter 2 ) , our imagination works with images available to it even when the objects are long absent . But when the fox chases the rabbit , does it follow a visual image ? Does such an image depend ...
... object , and , as we shall see ( in Chapter 2 ) , our imagination works with images available to it even when the objects are long absent . But when the fox chases the rabbit , does it follow a visual image ? Does such an image depend ...
Pagina 72
... objects we see as coexisting with us here and now . Regarding each object , we are aware through its looks not only that it is “ one such " being ; we also are simultaneously aware of its immediate and self - giving presence . Yet the ...
... objects we see as coexisting with us here and now . Regarding each object , we are aware through its looks not only that it is “ one such " being ; we also are simultaneously aware of its immediate and self - giving presence . Yet the ...
Pagina 73
... object . Further , he comes to see that each of the multiple appearances are at best partial and incom- plete likenesses of the object . This discovery of the detachability of image from object - an extension of the detachability of ...
... object . Further , he comes to see that each of the multiple appearances are at best partial and incom- plete likenesses of the object . This discovery of the detachability of image from object - an extension of the detachability of ...
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Termeni și expresii frecvente
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