from the preface to Gendlin’s “A Process Model”
“It is increasingly recognized that humans must be understood as embodied: a theme first argued by Edmund Husserl and deepened by Maurice Merleau-Ponty.”
“It is increasingly recognized that humans must be understood as embodied: a theme first argued by Edmund Husserl and deepened by Maurice Merleau-Ponty.”
isn’t it very interesting that we can so easily pinpoint the time in human history, in the early 20th century, when philosophical thinkers discovered that HUMANS HAVE BODIES
like it does not seem like a big stretch to say that the history of philosophy is the history of a massive trippy hallucination
but also like wow it’s a very powerful hallucination and we shouldn’t disregard how much sway it has and how much intellectual work has to be done in waking up from it
a lot of talk about embodiment and so on has a kind of embarrassingly obvious ring to it like “oh you figured out that humans have bodies, eh” but uhh hmm are you so sure you’re not a bit caught up in a disembodiment hallucination yourself?
and contrarianly I want to probe the disembodied viewpoint’s own validity, like yeah yeah we are bodies, but you know what, maybe the mental realm DOES achieve some kind of transcendence that isn’t so easily waved away with nice & respectable contemporary embodiment paradigms
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