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“Having a body, we have seen, does not entail knowing a body. Whereas a cow automatically eats whatever grasses supply needed nutrients, people must determine for themselves what to put into their bodies, with the result that there is room to make mistakes. Mistakes arise, in part, from ignorance. Yet ignorance is not the only problem produced by this arrangement. The fact that we are not compelled by our bodies' precise needs—understood as particular kinds of food and drink, rather than food and drink tout court—allows the formation of desires that have little or nothing to do with the needs on which bodily health depends.”
― The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
― The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
“by the late fifth century, the identities of those excluded from full personhood—women, slaves, barbarians—are being increasingly understood in terms of the difficulty or impossibility of mastering the daemonic tendencies in their bodies, while the identities of free men grow more dependent on their capacity for keeping the body under control.”
― The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
― The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
“Xenophon tells us that Socrates never neglected the body and did not praise those who did. We can imagine that it was because the physical body—volatile, unseen, and implicated in an automatized natural world—could seem so daemonic that entrusting life, both biological life and ethical life, to its dynamics could seem like ceding control of the human.”
― The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
― The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
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