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    What Is My Relationship To My Body

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    Our bodies are subject to the natural laws of physics, biology, and chemistry. We experience our bodies both as something we have and as something we are. This chapter aims to clarify the meaning of the phrase "my body" through a phenomenological reflection on how we relate to and experience our own bodies.

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    Our bodies are subject to the natural laws of physics, biology, and chemistry. We experience our bodies both as something we have and as something we are. This chapter aims to clarify the meaning of the phrase "my body" through a phenomenological reflection on how we relate to and experience our own bodies.

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    Our bodies are subject to the natural laws of physics, biology, and chemistry. We experience our bodies both as something we have and as something we are. This chapter aims to clarify the meaning of the phrase "my body" through a phenomenological reflection on how we relate to and experience our own bodies.

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    What Is My Relationship To My Body

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    Our bodies are subject to the natural laws of physics, biology, and chemistry. We experience our bodies both as something we have and as something we are. This chapter aims to clarify the meaning of the phrase "my body" through a phenomenological reflection on how we relate to and experience our own bodies.

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    What is My Relationship

    to My Body?
    Our Bodies
    There are times when we pay attention to our bodies rather than simply moving about
    doing day-to-day activities. When you have a toothache so painful that you become
    aware of how something so small can have pain so massive, you end up being sorry
    for all your bad life choices. Most usual time when we notice our bodies, is when we
    find that we cannot do something, either due to injury, illness, or to sheer inability.
    You realize just how hard it is to take a bath on your own when your arm is in a cast.

    But because our bodies are in time and space, we function in accordance with natural
    laws. Our bodies are subject to the laws of physics, involving mass, inertia, torque and
    other things. Our bodies also work in accordance with the laws of biology and
    chemistry, and our abilities are also determined by our anatomy as a species which
    has continually evolved throughout time.

    In short, we can talk about the body not only in terms of the mind-body problem, but
    also in terms of the meaning and experience involved whenever we use the phrase,
    my body. This is because my body can mean the body that I have, in the same way
    that i also have a mind and a will; and it can also mean that I am my body, because
    whatever it is that my body goes through, I go through. This chapter clarifies the
    meaning of my body following a phenomological reflection.
    Having Bodies

    Philosophers throughout history have also talked


    about the body, although when they do so, they
    do so within the discussion of their very diverse
    philosopical systems. The french philosopher and
    mathematician Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is
    usually credited as the thinker who systemically
    articulated the modern dualism between the
    mind and the body, although his main concerns
    were how we come to know, inspired by the
    clarity and distinctive accuracy of the physical
    and mathematical sciences. Rene Descartes is
    considered to be the father of both modern and
    analytic geometry.
    Dualism somewhat coincides with Plato, a little more than a
    thousand years before Descartes time, also believed. In man,
    this dualism occurs as the essential difference between the
    body and the soul. For Plato, the soul has three parts. The
    appetitive part, the spirited part and the rational part. An
    excellent, virtous man has a very well-ordered soul, meaning
    that each of these parts do their respective goals without
    interferring with the other parts and functions. Such a man is
    contemplative, for it is in contemplation that we reach of the
    good. For Plato, it is the soul, and not the body, which has the
    access to the ideal forms, being of the same nature as them.
    Man thus essentially a soul with a corruptible, mortal body,
    and in bodily death the bodys distractions and imprisonment
    no longer apply to him. Aristotle , however, disagreed with
    some of his teachers ideas, claiming that the form is
    inseperable from the matter of substance. This means that
    man is the entirety of his body and his soul. For Aristotle, you
    cannot ask wether a statue is its structure or its material
    Being Bodies

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