Degradation of the body in Idealist–Dualist Philosophy

Quintas, Alejandro (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: There is no corporal philosophy at the level of other philosophical subdisciplines. A research line has begun whose ultimate goal is to determine whether a somatic philosophy can be built. From a pragmatist and biopolitical approach, the present study investigated why it has not been possible to develop grounded somatic philosophy. As an answer, the “idealist–dualist episteme” is described, which encompasses invariants in the history of idealist philosophy at the ontological, gnoseological, ethical–political, and pedagogical levels. These constants reflect somatophobia, as well as an ontological and gnoseological disregard of the body, which has led to the irrelevance of the body and corporeality in philosophy until the arrival of the “bodily turn”. The critique of this prevailing idealism and dualism will enable a review of current approaches based on these positions, such as embodiment, enactivism, embodied cognition, or embodied artificial intelligence. It opens up a new philosophical line with a universalis scope that is open to the eclectic construction of a pragmatic corporal philosophy that takes into account Chinese, Japanese, or African philosophies.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/philosophies8020036

Año: 2023

Publicado en: Philosophies 8, 2 (2023), 36 [16 pp.]
ISSN: 2409-9287

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 1.3 - Philosophy (Q1) - History and Philosophy of Science (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.263 - Philosophy (Q2) - History and Philosophy of Science (Q2)

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Didáctica y Organiz. Esc. (Dpto. Ciencias de la Educación)