Eating Ethically - Religion and Science for a Better Diet

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.

List 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

About the author

Jonathan K. Crane

Report

An accomplished ethicist and philosopher, Crane crafts a careful argument for what it means to eat well. Following a trajectory set by Michael Pollan and others, Eating Ethically is set apart by its interdisciplinarity, using biblical scholarship, nutritional science, biochemistry, and medicine to effectively buttress the idea that eating is an activity that resonates in both personal and social contexts. Benjamin Zeller, coeditor of Religion, Food, and Eating in North America

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Crane, Jonathan K. Crane, Crane Jonathan K.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780231173445
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17344-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Food & society, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Religion and science, Religion & science, Cultural studies: food and society