Volume 3, 1983
Sektions-Vorträge II - Résumés des sections II - Section Papers II
Mary-Rose Barral
Pages 79-83
The Body-Soul-Consciousness Dialectic
Whether man's consciousness arises from his bodily condition or is an entity in itself vis-a-vis the world is the Key topic discussed in this paper. From a phenomenological study of man's "lived experience", it seems clear that consciousness is rooted in the materiality of nature and of the world. Both the Other and the world are necessary for the emerging and development of man's consciousness. Evidence points to a unity of man's physical and spiritual seif.