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 11
... regarding thinking , feeling , and imagining , but also regarding sensing , desiring , moving , and as I will argue - nourish- ing . And it exists not only regarding these activities of human beings but also for the activities of the ...
... regarding thinking , feeling , and imagining , but also regarding sensing , desiring , moving , and as I will argue - nourish- ing . And it exists not only regarding these activities of human beings but also for the activities of the ...
Pagina 151
... regarding one's own con- duct , one must be tolerant and liberal regarding the faults of others : " Finally , if someone through inexperience commit some faux pas , it should be politely passed over rather than mocked [ other transla ...
... regarding one's own con- duct , one must be tolerant and liberal regarding the faults of others : " Finally , if someone through inexperience commit some faux pas , it should be politely passed over rather than mocked [ other transla ...
Pagina 196
... regarding our relation to divinity . I make no attempt here to survey past or present religious prac- tices regarding eating or to attempt , empirically , to gather up their common and divergent strands . Rather , I propose to consider ...
... regarding our relation to divinity . I make no attempt here to survey past or present religious prac- tices regarding eating or to attempt , empirically , to gather up their common and divergent strands . Rather , I propose to consider ...
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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