A01=Raymond Tallis
Animal Kingdom
Anorexia Nervosa
appetite regulation
Author_Raymond Tallis
awareness
biological
Biological Hunger
Biomechanical Strategies
Category=QD
Category=QDX
Combinatorial Explosion
consciousness studies
diff
Eating Disordered Individual
Energy Conservation
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
erence
erent
ering
Felix Mendelssohn
Fi Rst Major Work
Fl Esh
Fourth Hunger
Gait Speed
Holy Men
human
Human Hunger
human motivation
Infi Nite Complexity
Inside Story
kind
Knut Hamsun
Maud Gonne
Mechanistic Biology
neurobiology of desire
Philosophical Refl Ections
philosophy of mind
propositional
Propositional Attitudes
Propositional Awareness
psychological needs
Satisfi Ed
Sheffi Eld
Snowfi Eld
suff
transformation of physiological needs
Product details
- ISBN 9781138149922
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
