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posted by [identity profile] keswindhover.livejournal.com at 09:03pm on 09/01/2004
Kes insisted I use that (highly misleading) title, just because I happened to mention that I've been sitting in front of the computer in my nightgown all day...

Peignoir, you said!

And I was talking to Jonesie earlier, and we agreed you can't divide the mind from the body - even as a convenience when discussing philosophy or psychology. That said, I think you may have a point here:

Rather than a long subjection of the body to the spirit, it might be said that we are on the return swing of the pendulum, responding to decades of emphasis on the body as the definition of humanity and the spirit as a somewhat old-fashioned and unscientific notion that no one needs to worry about.

People are very concerned about the question of what life is for. Whether they think of it in terms of 'spirit', or 'mind'.
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 09:10pm on 09/01/2004
One of the hazards of recycling ideas and quotes from earlier coursework is that I may give the impression that I've accepted ideas or philosophical distinctions that I was only endeavoring to prove to the professor I had read and understood (so I could hurry up and get on to the fun part of the paper where I talk about the movie and the novel, etc., using whatever terminology the theorist under discussion had used).

Let me be clear that I, personally, do not accept that mind and body can be differentiated or separated from one another. I agree that we are integral beings, needing all our various aspects and parts working together in order to become the persons we're meant to be.

Still, I'm very grateful to you and Jonesie for pointing out the misleading impressions I was giving. It's good to know that you pay enough attention to what I write and care enough to question my unsupported assumptions, etc.

Thanks for keeping me on my toes, honored sisters!
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