Images of Muscle and Bone “The union of soul and body is not an amalgamation between two mutually external terms, subject and object, brought about by arbitrary decree. It is enacted at every instant in the movement of existence.” [Mearleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception] Why do you doubt your senses? “Because”, said Scrooge, “a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” [Stave I, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens] As architecture students, we are told to think about the subjects in space –the occupants per say, that activate …show more content…
Under the title, Images of Muscle and Bone, Pallasmaa proposes, that there is “an inherent suggestion of action in the images of architecture, the moment of active encounter or a promise of use and purpose.” French philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes about this active exchange between the human body and the space it occupies by understanding the body as subject and object at once –a mutual engagement between the body as the perceiving subject and the body as the perceived object. Merleau-Ponty uses this dyadic reasoning of body and spatiality to characterize the existential nature of the human-body as “being in the world,” a phrase borrowed from Heidegger –the phenomenological aspect of the phrase comes, not from the world understood as a fixed, unchanging ‘space’ but rather how our bodies correlate with spatial consequence through sensory motility. It is also interesting to note how French philosopher, Gaston Bachelard, in his book, The Poetics of Space, describes a human being as a spiraled being who, “from outside, appears to be a well-invested center, will never reach his center. The being of man is an unsettled being which all expression unsettles.” Therefore, we can say that while we measure a building through our kinesthetic senses, architecture has the ability to organize itself around our bodily
On page 92, talking about Scrooge’s funeral, it states “‘I don't mind going if a lunch is provided,’ observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. “But I must be fed, if I make one.’” Being very unliked and realizing it was one of the biggest and most important reasons of why he decided to
In this essay it will be argued that the soul is mortal and does not survive the death of the body. As support, the following arguments from Lucretius will be examined: the “proof from the atomic structure of the soul,” the “proof from parallelism of mind and body,” the “proof from the sympatheia of mind and body,” and the “proof from the structural connection between mind and body.” The following arguments from Plato will be used as counterarguments against Lucretius: the “cyclical argument,” the “affinity argument,” the “argument from the form of life,” and the “recollection argument.” It will be shown that Plato’s premises lack validity and that Lucretius’
As Descartes defines the mind and body, as clearly and distinctly separate entities with mental and physical properties, only when considered separately from each other. But then they cannot without irrationality also be considered as united, for this would be to consider them at the same time as two different and one single substance, which, as Descartes admits,
In his only extant work, the poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), Epicurean author Titus Lucretius Carus writes of the soul as being inseparable from the corporeal body. This view, although controversial in its opposition to the traditional concept of a discrete, immortal soul, is nevertheless more than a mere novelty. The argument that Lucretius makes for the soul being an emergent property of interactions between physical particles is in fact more compelling and well-supported now than Lucretius himself would have ever imagined.
"We cannot conceive of half a soul, as we can in the case of any body, however small."
It is believed that humans’ bodies portray mechanical characteristics through their actions and behavior, but the question of this essay revolves around determining if the mind expresses these characteristics, too. To get closer to answering this question about the mind, this essay will examine the writings of Julian de La Mettrie and René Descartes. In Man a Machine, La Mettrie opposes Descartes’s ideas of the mind and body by expressing how separating the mind and body isn’t useful because to him it’s obvious that humans display absolute regularities or mechanical elements. However, to understand his opposition, an examination of Descartes’s Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy would be beneficial to see how Descartes separates mind, an immaterial substance, from the body, a material substance. While it’s difficult to choose between La Mettrie and Descartes’s ideologies because they both contain their faults, it’s clear that Descartes’s argument has more relatable features.
Skeletal bone is a dynamic tissue structure that constantly undergoes changes and remodeling throughout someone’s lifespan. Skeletal bones is a mechanical support for locomotion and protecting the organs. Muscle tendons and ligaments insert onto the bone. It is only present in vertebrates.
The message of this photograph I chose is that you can in any case be seen as appealing even at a more mature age. In this image we can see how the woman is kind of modeling for her partner in a “diaper” as if it were a thong, which is what is most commonly worn by women of younger age. This would make us believe or understand that she is in a way secure about her sexuality, despite the fact that she is of greater age and she attempts to remain in touch and with knowledge of what is socially and sexually modern. In the image we can see that her partner is in a way embarrassed or ashamed of her behavior. He demonstrates to be at peace with his current sexuality and that he does not need to be current with any current sexuality behavior.
There are 206 bones of the human skeleton. Bone is a connective tissue that are considered organs. Bones are composed of collagen and a mineral called hydroxyapatite, it gives the bones its incredible strength. The bones are important structures in the body for several reasons they support, protect, produce hormones, store minerals and growth factors and allows the body to move. Homeostatic imbalance of the bone can result in diseases of the bone such as Osteitis Deformans, which causes a weak growth of development of bones.
Body scanning can be done in numerous ways. It can be done in person or at a distance
The philosophical thought is that the mind and body are two separate things; with one being able to exist without the other has caused much discussion and debate among philosophers and theologians over the years. René Descartes and Plato, two well-known philosophers, argue that people have a mind or soul, which is somehow connected with the body, but the mind or soul can exist independently from our body. Descartes introduces the mind-body argument while Plato presents the soul-body argument. Although the arguments differ in some ways, Descartes and Plato also have similar opinions on the issue. As a person of faith, there is some difficulty in explaining to a non-believer that when a person dies, the soul does not perish with the body. While siding with Descartes and his belief in a perfect God, this essay seeks to review the issues of dualism and meditation, through the eyes of Descartes and Plato.
The book, Sensory Design published by Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka in 2004, explores a new multi-sensory method of design for architects in 335 pages. The opening of the book starts with a question “What if we designed for all senses?” Very similar to articles from Pallasmaa, the book leaves the reader wanting to know more about this method although this book covered many topics and included many references. Malnar is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, and Vodvarka is an artist who wrote many articles on architectural history.
The Mind-Body problem arises to Philosophy when we wonder what is the relationship between the mental states, like beliefs and thoughts, and the physical states, like water, human bodies and tables. For the purpose of this paper I will consider physical states as human bodies because we are thinking beings, while the other material things have no mental processes. The question whether mind and body are the same thing, somehow related, or two distinct things not related, has been asked throughout the history of Philosophy, so some philosophers tried to elaborate arrangements and arguments about it, in order to solve the problem and give a satisfactory answer to the question. This paper will argue that the Mind-Body Dualism, a view in
In his Summa Thleologica, Saint Thomas Aquinas writes a treatise on man concerning the essence, power, and operation of spiritual substances. In his first article of the treatise, Thomas attempts to answer the question of whether or not the soul is a body. I will be explaining and evaluating the steps of his argument that a body can be a principle of life but that the soul cannot be corporeal, that is, a body.
“It is immoral for the drug companies to charge large sums for drugs that are cheap to manufacture.” Discuss