The Person and the Body

[Tree of Life]

Can you be distinguished from your body?

Note - I'm not asking whether or not you can be separated from your body, but whether or not you can be distinguished from your body.

Another way of asking it would be to say: Are you identical to your body? Or is your body just a part of you?

Final question - in light of however you choose to answer the above, what does the following sentence mean: "He doesn't love me, he just loves my body."

 

[Ana the Ist]

Can you be distinguished from your body?

Note - I'm not asking whether or not you can be separated from your body, but whether or not you can be distinguished from your body.

Another way of asking it would be to say: Are you identical to your body? Or is your body just a part of you?

Final question - in light of however you choose to answer the above, what does the following sentence mean: "He doesn't love me, he just loves my body."

I imagine someone who said/wrote your last sentence means "they just love my physical aspects".

I think you can be distinguished from your body. I'm guessing that at the moment you're distinguishing me by my name and writing. You realistically don't know much about my body nor would you be able to distinguish me in that way.

Does that answer your question?

 

[Davian]

Can you be distinguished from your body?

Playing with semantics. Interesting.

Note - I'm not asking whether or not you can be separated from your body, but whether or not you can be distinguished from your body.

It is my understanding, from the perspective of the modern philosophy of mind, that you are your body.

Another way of asking it would be to say: Are you identical to your body?

What do you mean by "you"? My phenomenal self? Or is my body identical to my body?

Or is your body just a part of you?

Or, is my phenomenal self a temporary construct of my brain created as necessary as a beneficial way to process information? So many questions.

Final question - in light of however you choose to answer the above, what does the following sentence mean: "He doesn't love me, he just loves my body."

I don't know. Do you have some bromance going on that you would like some advice on?

 

[quatona]

Can you be distinguished from your body?

Note - I'm not asking whether or not you can be separated from your body, but whether or not you can be distinguished from your body.

Another way of asking it would be to say: Are you identical to your body? Or is your body just a part of you?

I don´t believe that "self/me" is a solid concept. But if hard-pressed to answer, I would pick the last option.

Final question - in light of however you choose to answer the above, what does the following sentence mean: "He doesn't love me, he just loves my body."

I suspect that it´s meant to express the he is only interested in the body, not in her thoughts, feelings, ideas, emotions and other emanations of her physical existence that she includes in her concept of "me/self".

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Can we be distinguished from the body?

I think it depends on metaphysical presumptions, which are unprovable in the hardcore sense. So a Hindu would say Yes, and a a modern athesit would probably say No.

 

[Eudaimonist]

Re: OP

I think that the body is one aspect of one's existence. Another aspect is one's mental life. Neither are "parts" in the usual sense, since they are not separable from each other. You can separate a car from its engine, but you can't separate the car's mass from its volume.

I think that you are presenting a false alternative between "I am not my body" and "I am only my body". Another statement is that: "I am not only a body. I am more than just a mindless zombie."

"He doesn't love me, he just loves my body" means that he does not care about the entirety of one's personal existence (body and mind), but only about the values that the body provides.

So, mind and body can be distinguished, but only when one realizes that this doesn't make them separable "parts".


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[KCfromNC]

Can you be distinguished from your body?

Yes and no. Depends on what you mean by various words. If you use them correctly in context there's not much issue understanding this topic. If you twist them into tricky creative writing exercises intended to confuse, you're doing philosophy. Seeing which forum we're in, I think I know what's coming.

Final question - in light of however you choose to answer the above, what does the following sentence mean: "He doesn't love me, he just loves my body."

Yep, here we are.

 

[ananda]

Can you be distinguished from your body?

Note - I'm not asking whether or not you can be separated from your body, but whether or not you can be distinguished from your body.

Another way of asking it would be to say: Are you identical to your body? Or is your body just a part of you?

Final question - in light of however you choose to answer the above, what does the following sentence mean: "He doesn't love me, he just loves my body."

IMO your body is one part of "you", like your arm is part of your body. The body, mind, and consciousness entwines together like multiple strands which make up a single rope ("you")

 

[juvenissun]

Can you be distinguished from your body?

Note - I'm not asking whether or not you can be separated from your body, but whether or not you can be distinguished from your body.

Another way of asking it would be to say: Are you identical to your body? Or is your body just a part of you?

Final question - in light of however you choose to answer the above, what does the following sentence mean: "He doesn't love me, he just loves my body."

When you examine a dead body, and you try to restore the details of the original life, that is when you relate the body to the individual.
This applies to humans, animals and plants. We can not see everything. But we do can say something.

 

[Paradoxum]

Perhaps, your brain is who you are, but your body is what you are. So whether you can be distinguished from your body depends on what specifically you're asking about. Psychological identity, or physical identity.

Final question - in light of however you choose to answer the above, what does the following sentence mean: "He doesn't love me, he just loves my body."

I'd say it means, "He doesn't love who I am, he just loves part of what I am". Or, "He doesn't love my psychological identity, he just loves part of my physical identity".