Hugur - 01.01.2015, Side 80

Hugur - 01.01.2015, Side 80
80 Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir Abstract Philosophy of the body, philosophy in the body and why thinking is not neuter The body is one of the grand discoveries of 19th and 20th century philosophy. The acknowledgement of embodiment changes in the first place philosophical conceptions of “man” and yields (a) a richer notion of the moral, epistemic and political subject by undermining traditional dualistic schemes of body and soul that such subject-conceptions have traditionally been based on. The body (b) makes the human subject relational, contextual and embedded. With the body (c) it becomes evident that “man” comes in two main types, male and female, and trans, non-binary, etc. The acknowledgement of embodiment changes in the second place our ideas about philosophical thinking. Philosophical think- ing is embodied and therefore not neuter but “sexuate” (Irigaray), undermin- ing philosophical conceptions of the subject that were traditionally considered to be neuter although they were based on an image of the male and hence on ideas about sexual difference. It therefore makes sense to ask what it means to think philosophically as a man or as a woman without making essentialist assumptions. What implications does the acknowledgement of embodied, sexu- ate being have for our understanding of ourselves as philosophizing embodied beings? In the third and final part of this article, Eugene Gendlin’s methood of embodided thinking as “focusing” and the method of “Thinking at the Edge” as a philosophical way of focusing will be introduced. These methods aid in assessing the implicit knowledge and wisdom we have as embodied beings. Hugur 2015-5.indd 80 5/10/2016 6:45:15 AM
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