The metaphysics of the body

ISBN-13: 9786203831429 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str.

Gemael Yanick Mboumba Mboumba

Opis

The body is the mark of my materiality. Now, in the Iliad. The body is what makes me visible. After the death of Patroclus, his image appears in a dream to Achilles "similar to him in size, his beautiful eyes and voice, wearing the same clothes. ». But Achilles cannot grasp it. The soul retains all the features of the body for the Greeks, the only difference being that it is a shadow instead of being tangible and solid like a body. Therefore, what characterizes the body is its compact, material character. The body places man in the visible world. It is also the sign that signals his inscription in time, it is subject to physis: that which grows and decreases. It grows old, suffers from disease ... In contrast to the human body, the body of the gods is imagined as an imperishable body, removed from time. The gods do not eat, do not drink, they have no blood. They have a body but without the limits of the body, hence their ability to transform and appear under multiple appearances to men. The human body is subject to aging, disease, hunger, thirst ... Being a body in its materiality

O autorze

Mboumba Mboumba, Gemael Yanick Of Congolese origin, Gemaël Yanick MBOUMBA MBOUMBA is the author of several books