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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

‘I am my body,’ both an ‘I’ and an ‘it’.

Does the following context mean: I am my body, that is both "I" and "my body"? In other words, is he trying to distinguish his ego and his body from each other?

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‘I am my body,’ the phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty asserts, both an ‘I’ and an ‘it’.
  

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red apple Does the following context mean: I am my body, that is both "I" and "my body"? In other words, is he trying to distinguish his ego and his body from each other? It sounds to me as if he is emphasizing that they are one, indistinguishable.

  • red apple Does the following context mean: I am my body, that is both "I" and "my body"?
  • In other words, is he trying to distinguish his ego and his body from each other?
  • It sounds to me as if he is emphasizing that they are one, indistinguishable.
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red appleDoes the following context mean: I am my body, that is both "I" and "my body"? In other words, is he trying to distinguish his ego and his body from each other?
It sounds to me as if he is emphasizing that they are one, indistinguishable.

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