Philosophy, the body and movement

Teacher(s)

Schmutz Jacob;

Language

French

Main themes

The topics addressed will be the body as object and as lived, the classical opposition between the matter and the mind, the search of happiness and pleasure, the sense of pain and suffering, youth, ageing and death. The notions of strong, weak and superhuman (heroes, champion) will be highlighted. The political dimension in the treatment of the body will be studied. These concepts will be addressed with reference to authors who have vastly contributed to their elaboration (for example Socrates, Descartes, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault'). The philosophical concepts of efficient cause, final cause, matter, form, deduction, induction, time and space will be analyzed to illustrate their presence in thought and scientific research as well as their utility and enlightenment in natural and human sciences through the philosophical elaboration that they have undergone.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	At the end of this course, the student will understand what it means to talk about the body and to act on the body. He/she will be able to manipulate critical concepts on which to base his/her judgment and motor intervention in an educational (EDPH) or a re-educational (KINE) context. The second aim of this course is of epidemiological nature, illustrating the fundamental philosophical concepts underlying thought and scientific research.

Bibliography

Peter Adamson (dir.), Health. A History, Oxford University Press, 2019
Michel Dupuis, Philosophie et anthropologie du corps, Paris: Seli Arslan, 2015.
Marie Gaille (dir.), Philosophie de la médecine. Frontière, savoir, clinique, Paris: Vrin, 2011
Elodie Giroux, Après Canguilhem. Définir la santé et la maladie, Paris: PUF, 2010
Jean-Christophe Goddard (dir.), Le corps, Paris: Vrin, 2005
Chantal Jacquet, Le corps, Paris: PUF, 2001
Maël Lemoine, Introduction à la philosophie des sciences médicales, Paris: Hermann, 2015
Éva Lévine & Patricia Touboul, Le corps, Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 2015
Michela Marzano (dir.), Dictionnaire du corps, Paris: PUF, 2007
Michela Marzano, Penser le corps, Paris: PUF, 2002
Jacob Stegenga, Care and Cure. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine, University of Chicago Press, 2018

Faculty or entity

FSM