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 70
... sight of an- other one to whom I show something , for pointing is a social gesture . I do not point for myself ; I indicate something to someone else . To distant things , within the visible horizon , we are related by common experience ...
... sight of an- other one to whom I show something , for pointing is a social gesture . I do not point for myself ; I indicate something to someone else . To distant things , within the visible horizon , we are related by common experience ...
Pagina 71
... sight . " Whereas smell , like taste , with which it is intimately connected , is a chemical sense indifferent to the forms of things , sight — especially in higher animals - brings awareness of wholes . Things , as distinct , formed ...
... sight . " Whereas smell , like taste , with which it is intimately connected , is a chemical sense indifferent to the forms of things , sight — especially in higher animals - brings awareness of wholes . Things , as distinct , formed ...
Pagina 73
... sight is not the concrete reality of the enmattered form that is the visible 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 ...
... sight is not the concrete reality of the enmattered form that is the visible 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 ...
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