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The document explores the concept of personhood, defining it as a complex interplay of embodiment, beliefs, rationality, social relationships, language, reflection, autonomy, and rights.
Apart from this ambiguity, the embodied, non-conscious speech constructions of our informants delineate clearly the gendering of dominance in different contexts. The male perspective is dominant in general, non-familial contexts, while the female perspective is dominant in the contexts of parenthood and reproduction.
The one who questions about so many things and about himself becomes the question. - And the fixed, ready-made, obvious, certain answers I have had about the question, my personal assumption, presupposition about myself no longer satisfy me.
The document discusses the human person as an embodied spirit, explaining that a human person has a body, mind, and spirit that form their identity. It defines key terms like man, human, and person and describes humans as having both a cognitive self and physical self.
In our daily lives, the male body receives much focus in the media, from films to magazines
It considers how to incorporate the "bodily turn" in history by examining three conceptual themes in research on working-class masculinity: masculinity crises, muscular masculinity, and homosociality.
First, I review research on institutions and culture in order to explain how various discourses on male bodies provide resources to signify manhood. Second, I demonstrate how males are socialized to use their bodies to symbolize manhood.
The one who questions about so many things and about himself becomes the question. - And the fixed, ready-made, obvious, certain answers I have had about the question, my personal assumption, presupposition about myself no longer satisfy me.
Here we move on to a critical discussion of theories of the body, especially in relation to masculinity, making the relationship between masculine embodiment and individual agency a key focus.
Throughout the discussion and explicitly in the conclusion, this article shows what childist biblical studies contribute to the wider movement of childism and securing children's rights.
This chapter explores the dual nature of human existence, emphasizing the interplay between the body and soul as essential components of identity. It discusses how the limitations imposed by the body can be transcended by the soul's freedom, allowing individuals to pursue their life possibilities.
Orthodox masculinity is mostly considered to be hegemonic and is evidenced by the dominance of men over women and other, less powerful men. Contemporary shifts in masculinity have seen an emergence of new masculinities that challenge traditional male stereotypes.
As we may already know, Aristotle's account of the human person as an embodied spirit is in large part a reaction against Plato’s take on the nature of the human person. For Plato, the nature of the human person is seen in the metaphysical dichotomy between body and soul.
My thesis is that although the corporeal dimension of the human being can be accurately described in biological (and physical and chemical) terms, to understand it adequately requires transcending the categories used in analyzing animal and other merely natural forms of life.
However, the implications of human embodiment have been largely neglected by one of the key frameworks for conceptualising the development of social knowledge: Social Representations Theory. This article seeks to spark a di-alogue between Social Representations Theory and embodiment research.