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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... reason , fully grown and taking cognizance of itself , transcends the limits of such instrumental rationality . As we saw in Chapter 2 , reason can discern , behold , and bespeak the forms of things in appreciative awareness . Next ...
... reason , fully grown and taking cognizance of itself , transcends the limits of such instrumental rationality . As we saw in Chapter 2 , reason can discern , behold , and bespeak the forms of things in appreciative awareness . Next ...
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... reasons . The lesser reason is for cultural self - understanding . Everyone acknowl- edges that the West is what it is largely because of biblical religion ; Jerusalem is one of the sources of our civilization . A central document of ...
... reasons . The lesser reason is for cultural self - understanding . Everyone acknowl- edges that the West is what it is largely because of biblical religion ; Jerusalem is one of the sources of our civilization . A central document of ...
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... reason began to stir . A sense different from that to which instinct was tied - the sense , say , of sight - presented other food than that normally consumed as similar to it ; and reason , instituting a comparison , sought to enlarge ...
... reason began to stir . A sense different from that to which instinct was tied - the sense , say , of sight - presented other food than that normally consumed as similar to it ; and reason , instituting a comparison , sought to enlarge ...
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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