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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... standing and gait . Though upright posture characterizes the human species , each of us must struggle to attain it . Our birthright includes standing , but we cannot stand at birth . Feral children who have survived in the wild were not ...
... standing and gait . Though upright posture characterizes the human species , each of us must struggle to attain it . Our birthright includes standing , but we cannot stand at birth . Feral children who have survived in the wild were not ...
Pagina 65
... standing , crowned by the delights of self - fulfil- lment attained through our own activity . ( Recall the self - satisfaction of the child and the thrill of his parents when he or she first succeeds in standing erect , and even more ...
... standing , crowned by the delights of self - fulfil- lment attained through our own activity . ( Recall the self - satisfaction of the child and the thrill of his parents when he or she first succeeds in standing erect , and even more ...
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... standing , toward which we point and are pointed , and about which we are moved to speak . With man life and the world become self - conscious : Man is that part of the whole that can think the whole ; that part that in thinking ( and ...
... standing , toward which we point and are pointed , and about which we are moved to speak . With man life and the world become self - conscious : Man is that part of the whole that can think the whole ; that part that in thinking ( and ...
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