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| Development of the Idea of Human Body in the History of Chinese Thought |
| Gong Huanan |
| Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture/Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University,Shanghai, 200241 |
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Abstract Individual body is first conceptualized; it is then lifted to the status of "gu," and finally viewed from the vantage point of 'li.” In this process, body is treated as a universal, and never as a particular. Every individual body is different from others. Yet body as a class exists as a class; body as gu exists as gu; body as li exists as li. The unity of mind and body implies that on the one hand body transforms into a thinking thing, on the other hand thinking unfolds through body. This is the underlying ground and basic characteristic of the idea of human body in the history of Chinese thought.
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Received: 01 December 2014
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2015, Vol. 32 
