The body dimension from the existential-phenomenological approach.
Abstract
Only from 1400 human beings began to know the interior of the human body, emphasizing, from the perspective of natural sciences, the necessity to know and to understand the biological and anatomical aspect of human body in detail. For that reason, both science and philosophy have a long way to cross in reference to the living body, which seems to has been neglected. Then, in order to fill many existing theoretical emptiness related to the living body as well as to have a holistic vision in the understanding of human beings, this bibliographical research establishes the fundamental expositions of the human bodyhood from the existential phenomenological approach by means of a critical analysis. It identifies the philosophical context on which the concept of human bodyhood is based from this approach and it also analyzes the implications of the idea of the living body for the understanding of human beings’ feelings, emotions, thoughts, conflicts and attitudes according to the existential phenomenological psychology.
The existential phenomenological philosophical context in which the concept of human bodyhood and/or living body is based is offered by philosophers such as Gabriel Marcel, Jean Paul Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.
After clarifying their contributions, it is analyzed the implications of this concept according to the existential phenomenological psychology, which considers that our bodyhood is the vehicle of our be-in-the-world.
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