Embodiments of Will

Embodiments of Will
Author: Michael Frampton
Publsiher: Michael Frampton
Total Pages: 661
Release: 2008
Genre: Animal locomotion
ISBN: 9783639082944

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This book examines the two chief anatomical and physiological embodi-ment theories of voluntary animal motion, which I call the cardiosinew and cerebroneuromuscular theories of motion, from the time of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) to that of Mondino (d. A.D. 1326). The study of animal motion commenced with the ancient Greek natural scientist Aristotle who wrote the monograph 'On the motion of animals' (De motu animalium). Subsequent inquiries into voluntary animal motion may be found in a variety of Greek, Latin, and Arabic compendia, commentaries, and encyclopedias throughout the ancient and medieval periods. The motion of animals was considered relevant to natural philosophers and theologians investigating the nature of the soul, and to physicians seeking to discover the causes of disorders of voluntary movement such as epilepsy and tetany. The book fills a gap in the scholarly literature concerned with pre-modern studies of the anatomical and physiological mechanisms of will and bodily movement. The accompanying photographs of my own anatomical dissections illuminate ancient and medieval conceptual, empirical, and experimental methods of anatomical and physiological research.

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Embodiment

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Embodiment
Author: Nancy K Dess
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-10-22
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781000197204

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This is a collection of pithy and accessible essays on the nature and implications of human embodiment which explore the concept of ‘human being’ in the most unprecedented manner through seemingly disparate academic disciplines. With contributions from key researchers from around the world, this book engages with embodiment through the lens of "new materialism". It eschews the view that human beings are debased by materiality and creates a vision of humans as fully embodied creatures situated in a richly populated living planet. The essays in this volume will illustrate and foster new materialist thought in areas including psychology, astrophysics, geology, biology, sociology, philosophy, and the performing arts. The book’s engaging and enlightening content is made accessible to readers with relatively little background in the various academic disciplines. This is an important and fascinating text which invites readers to explore and expand their understanding and experience of embodiment. It will be particularly useful for postgraduate students and scholars of theoretical and philosophical psychology, philosophy of the mind, and social and cultural anthropology.

The Soul Its Nature Relations and Expressions in Human Embodiments

The Soul  Its Nature  Relations  and Expressions in Human Embodiments
Author: Cora Linn Victoria Scott Richmond
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1888
Genre: Reincarnation
ISBN: MINN:31951P01160706O

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This book is about soul embodiment, not reincarnation.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 968
Release: 1996
Genre: Trademarks
ISBN: PSU:000026025131

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Abstractions and Embodiments

Abstractions and Embodiments
Author: Janet Abbate,Stephanie Dick
Publsiher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781421444376

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"This anthology of original historical essays examines how social relations are enacted in and through computing using the twin frameworks of abstraction and embodiment. The book highlights a wide range of understudied contexts and experiences, such as computing and disability, working mothers as technical innovators, race and community formation, and gaming behind the Iron Curtain"--

Searching for the Spirit of the West

Searching for the Spirit of the West
Author: Luigi Morelli
Publsiher: CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2023-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781912992492

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How can the West rediscover its authentic spirit? Exploring the period from 1899 to 1945 – from the end of the US frontier and the writing of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to the conclusion of World War II and the dropping of the atom bomb – Luigi Morelli traces the events that led the United States to become the world’s dominating imperial force. America, he demonstrates, is deeply connected to Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe, particularly Russia. Yet despite their tragic collective histories, there is hope for the future – if only America can claim its true task. Searching for the Spirit of the West challenges many of the falsehoods that pass for mainstream history. Utilizing a wealth of documented evidence from the research of overlooked historians, economists, social and spiritual thinkers, the author takes a symptomatic view of the past, revealing hidden, longer-term trends. This approach offers a new understanding of events such as the rise of Nazism, the Great Depression, the new Deal, and even the roles of banking and clandestine ‘brotherhoods’ in world history. Morelli also appraises The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in parallel with America’s cultural achievements. Through imagination, L. Frank Baum’s contemporary fairy-tale enables us to intuit the true mission of the West and its potential contribution to world culture, now and in the future.

Embodiment and Agency

Embodiment and Agency
Author: Sue Campbell,Letitia Maynell
Publsiher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780271048086

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Embodiment and the Meaning of Life

Embodiment and the Meaning of Life
Author: Jeff Noonan
Publsiher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780773553941

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The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriously laments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body. The most familiar and contemporary version is antinatalism, the view that it is wrong to bring sentient life into existence because birth inevitably produces suffering. Technotopianism, which stems from a similarly negative view of embodied limitations, claims that we should escape sickness and death through radical human-enhancement technologies. In Embodiment and the Meaning of Life Jeff Noonan presents pessimism and technotopianism as two sides of the same coin, as both begin from the premise that the limitations of embodied life are inherently negative. He argues that rather than rendering life pointless, the tragic failures that mark life are fundamental to the good of human existence. The necessary limitations of embodied being are challenges for each person to live well, not only for their own sake, but for the sake of the future of the human project. Meaning is not a given, Noonan suggests, but rather the product of labour upon ourselves, others, and the world. Meaningful labour is threatened equally by unjust social systems and runaway technological development that aims to replace human action, rather than liberate it. Calling on us to draw conceptual connections between finitude, embodiment, and the meaning of life, this book shows that seeking the common good is our most viable and materially realistic source of optimism about the future.