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Hunger (Paperback)
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Hunger (Paperback)
Series: The Art of Living
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Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While
our hungers seem the most obvious things about us, they 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 demands 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. Raymond Tallis
takes us through the different levels of our hunger, showing that
our primary appetites give rise to 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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