Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While
they seem the most obvious things about us, our hungers are also
deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique
character of human consciousness. In humans, physiological need is
transformed into a multitude of needs that are remote from organic
necessity. Even first-level biological hunger is experienced
differently in humans; and little in human feeding behaviour has
any parallel in the animal kingdom.In this book, Ray Tallis takes
us through the different levels of our hunger. Out of our primary
appetites arise a myriad of pleasures and tastes that are
elaborated in second-level hedonistic hungers creating new values.
The evolution of appetite into desire opens the way to social
hungers such as the hunger for acknowledgement. Awareness of death
awakens a further level of hunger for something that lies beyond
the pell-mell of successive experiences leading towards extinction.
The art of living is the art of managing our hungers.
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