Abstract
Sostenemos que, siendo el acto de comer racional y relacional, también debe ser un tema educativo que tiene que ver con la sociedad y el ambiente, la política y la salud, los gustos y las tendencias, así como los factores genéticos y epigenéticos. Esta hipótesis tiene que ver con una cierta teoría del acto humano y una antropología basada en las especulaciones filosóficas de MacIntyre y Aristóteles. En este sentido, argumentamos que las opciones alimenticias son un “híbrido de libertad”, racionalidad, y elementos inconscientes y ambientales, y se relacionan con las dimensiones espirituales y biológicas de los seres humanos. Finalmente, sugerimos que debemos cambiar los hábitos humanos para transformar la forma humana de actuar, ya que cada acto humano puede cambiar la esencia humana y viceversa.
Highlights
We will focus on the “human” dimension of eating by suggesting three principal arguments to support this thesis: eating is a rational act (Chapter 3); eating is a relational act (Chapter 4); eating is an educational and cultural issue (Chapter 5)
In order to do so, we will show the “complexity” of this act, which deals with society and environment, politics, and health (Chapter 2)
By way of a conclusion, we will suggest that people have to change their habits in order to modify the human way of acting, and of eating
Summary
We live because we eat, edo ergo sum. If we did not eat, we would not exist. Different eating habits in different societies are determined by aspects relating to individuals, the features of the group and the environment in which people live Under these conditions food becomes a way to communicate [4]. If what we have said is true, the act of eating is essentially political and religious In this regard, “the issue of food [...] intercepts in an exemplary manner the three directions of the human relationship: 1. The social dimension (and religious, once it is acknowledged that every religious attitude has social impact) tells us something about the communicational aspect of eating habits, following Jürgen Habermas’s (37: 105) suggestion that we live in a “communication community”, since we are speaking animals In this regard, food choices reveal a certain way of living and interpreting our relationship to the environment: every kind of food has a strong symbolic/social dimension. We can develop moral sensibility, since we are capable of interpreting the symbolic dimensions of food
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