Eating ethically : religion and science for a better diet
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Eating ethically : religion and science for a better diet
Columbia University Press, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
We are eating ourselves to death in many ways, both bodily and societally. Few activities are as essential to human flourishing as eating, and fewer still are as ethically intricate. Eating well is particularly confusing. Conflicting recommendations, contradictory scientific studies, and the confounding environmental and economic factors that surround us make choices difficult. Eating "just right" is complex for the contemporary American, living amid excess and faced with moral, medical, and environmental consequences that influence our eating choices. A different eating strategy is needed, one grounded in our biology but also philosophically sound, theologically cogent, and personally achievable. Eating Ethically provides evidence and arguments for more adaptive eating practices. Drawing on religion, medicine, philosophy, cognitive science, art, ethics, and more, Jonathan K. Crane distinguishes among the eater, the eaten, and eating to promote a radical reorientation away from external cues and toward internal ones.
From classic philosophy on appetite to contemporary studies of satiation, from the science of metabolism to metaphysics and theology, Crane intertwines ancient wisdom and cutting-edge scholarship to show that eating well is not only a biological necessity but also an integral facet of spiritual and social health. He draws on insights from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that promote personal health and social cohesion. Eating Ethically, grounded in science, tradition, and our internal necessities, points us toward eating well.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Part I: Eating Unwell
1. Full of Ourselves
2. Deprivation and Gluttony
Part II: I Eat Therefore I Am
3. The Eater
4. The Eaten
5. Eating
Part III: Eating Well
6. Eating's Genesis
7. Satisfaction
8. Just Right
Part IV: I Eat Therefore I Am Tasteful
9. Savoring
10. Sacrificing
11. Sharing
Part V: Conclusion
12. Go Ahead, Refrain
Notes
References
Index
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