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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... sense of form : form as contrasted with its own material , and form as distinctive kind , contrasted with other kinds . This way of approaching animal forms accords well with our ordi- nary ( that is , prescientific ) experience of the ...
... sense of form : form as contrasted with its own material , and form as distinctive kind , contrasted with other kinds . This way of approaching animal forms accords well with our ordi- nary ( that is , prescientific ) experience of the ...
Pagina 176
... sense , but in the sense of having more than enough , more than is necessary . True , many who are literally wealthy will be stingy and many who are not will be gen- erous , and liberality is not a matter of how much you have but what ...
... sense , but in the sense of having more than enough , more than is necessary . True , many who are literally wealthy will be stingy and many who are not will be gen- erous , and liberality is not a matter of how much you have but what ...
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... sense of , 24-25 transitive sense of , 24 Fermentation , discovery of , 124 Fish , omission of dietary criterion for , 219n Fishbane , Michael , 106n , 210n Flood , the , 211 Food defining , 21-24 God's instruction to man about , 206-7 ...
... sense of , 24-25 transitive sense of , 24 Fermentation , discovery of , 124 Fish , omission of dietary criterion for , 219n Fishbane , Michael , 106n , 210n Flood , the , 211 Food defining , 21-24 God's instruction to man about , 206-7 ...
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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