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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi discovered that people find genuine satisfaction during a state of consciousness called Flow. In this state they are completely absorbed in an activity, especially an activity which involves their creative abilities. During this “optimal experience” they feel “strong, alert, in effortless control, unselfconscious ...
Body am I entirely, and nothing more; and soul is only a word for something about the body. The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a shepherd. An instrument of your body is also your little intelligence, my brother, which you call ‘spirit’ – a little instrument and toy of your great intelligence. 37
Aug 9, 2011 · 1. The body from the inside. Most philosophical interest for bodily awareness has come from its peculiarities. Though our own body is a material entity located in space and time in the same way as a rock, a tree or a bird. we do not perceive and experience it like those other objects (e.g. Bermúdez 1998, 2018; Vignemont 2018, 2023).
The Mind-Body Distinction. One of the deepest and most lasting legacies of Descartes’ philosophy is his thesis that mind and body are really distinct—a thesis now called “mind-body dualism.”. He reaches this conclusion by arguing that the nature of the mind (that is, a thinking, non-extended thing) is completely different from that of ...
Oct 8, 2000 · In a second sense, a cause is “the form … the account of the essence” (194 b 27), traditionally called the formal cause. A third sense, traditionally called the efficient cause, is “the primary source of change or rest” (194 b 30). In this sense, Aristotle says, an adviser is the cause of an action, a father is the cause of his child ...
I am body entirely, and nothing beside; and soul is only a word for something in the body. The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman. Your little intelligence, my brother, which you call ‘spirit’, is also an instrument of your body, a little instrument and toy of your great intelligence.
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As opposed to the first distinction of embodiment, in which the body is entirely within the realm of first-person responsibly and action (i.e., the body for Itself), the second distinction (i.e., the body for the Other) shifts to the body as now under the third-person viewpoint of another subject—the body’s “other plane of existence.” 16 placeholder Sartre construes human corporeity in ...
