The question of the body in Western philosophy (from marginalization to transgression)

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Dr. Hamida Harbadji, Dr. Yacine Mechta

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The body was subjected to oppression and marginalization in classical societies governed by the authority of idealistic philosophies that believed that the subject of human identity was the mind and that it was a fixed value and the source of knowledge. They did not recognize the authority of the body except in what served the mind or logos. Rational philosophers believed in the mind's ability to discover, realize, and comprehend, and made it the absolute authority. As for the body, it is a prison for the soul that prevents it from being liberated. There are those who view it as a material thing that hinders the soul from reaching its divine origin.

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