Ensouled bodies: the continuity of the theme of 'the body as instrument'.
This paper deals squarely with the concept of instrument, specifically, a music instrument, as a unifying agent. The topic occupied writers from Plato, through Plotinus (3rd century, CE), writers within the period known as the European Latin-based Middle Ages, and, as we will see, beyond. Seen from a historical perspective as it recurs, the topic of "body as instrument" is evidence that mind-body interactive reciprocity is not by any means solely a recent multifaceted biochemical, neurological, psychological, and cognitive, subject of inquiry; but, rather, constituted a carefully-articulated topic of discussion in the past--and, that the results of this encounter of various points of view are indeed useful for us today. Further, that alternative modes of knowledge transmission exist, for example, the allegorical mode.
van Deusen
Nancy
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Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA. nancy.vandeusen@cgu.edu
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