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Download PDF by Carol Collier: Recovering the Body: A Philosophical Story

By Carol Collier

ISBN-10: 0776607995

ISBN-13: 9780776607993

Following the metaphysical and epistemological threads that experience resulted in our glossy belief of the physique as a desktop, the e-book explores perspectives of the physique within the historical past of philosophy. Its imperative thesis is that the Cartesian paradigm, which has ruled the trendy notion of the physique (including the advance and perform of medicine), bargains an incomplete or even misguided photograph. This photograph has turn into a reductio advert absurdum, which, via such present developments because the perform of maximum physique amendment, and futuristic visions of downloading awareness into machines, could lead on to the disappearance of the organic physique. featuring Spinoza’s philosophy of the physique because the highway no longer undefined, the writer asks what Spinoza may give some thought to a few of our modern physique visions. It additionally appears to be like to 2 extra holistic methods to the physique that provide wish of convalescing its precise which means: the perform of yoga and substitute medication. The metaphysical research is followed all through via a tripartite old and epistemological research: the physique as a disadvantage to wisdom (exemplified by way of Plato and our modern day futurists), the physique as an item of data (exemplified through Descartes and smooth medical medicine); and the physique as a resource of information (exemplified via the Stoics, and the philosophy of yoga).

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