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
... recognize that we are now speaking about the inner or psychic meaning of animal embodiment . To repeat , animal form turns out to be internally capacious , empowered to sense , to move , to want . Somehow - and I would say mysteriously ...
... recognize that we are now speaking about the inner or psychic meaning of animal embodiment . To repeat , animal form turns out to be internally capacious , empowered to sense , to move , to want . Somehow - and I would say mysteriously ...
Pagina 72
... recognize many a " that there " also as a " one such . ” The human form embodies the psychic power to notice , discern , and appreciate all other forms — and also its own . This eidetic character of human vision has momentous implica ...
... recognize many a " that there " also as a " one such . ” The human form embodies the psychic power to notice , discern , and appreciate all other forms — and also its own . This eidetic character of human vision has momentous implica ...
Pagina 107
... recognizes himself in the other and allows him to remain another Fresser . A host's inclining from aloof verticality ... recognize nature and the naturally human leads one to treat as respectable and worthy only what is merely familiar ...
... recognizes himself in the other and allows him to remain another Fresser . A host's inclining from aloof verticality ... recognize nature and the naturally human leads one to treat as respectable and worthy only what is merely familiar ...
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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