Corps fermé, corps rassemblé en Grèce ancienne
Based on the common materiality of human life (body and soul) and of its environment, the ancient Greek world defined three models of relationship between the body’s interior and exterior. The first model is that of a constant communication between them, the danger coming from an imbalance, excess o...
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Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Ateliers d'Anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/11198 |
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| Summary: | Based on the common materiality of human life (body and soul) and of its environment, the ancient Greek world defined three models of relationship between the body’s interior and exterior. The first model is that of a constant communication between them, the danger coming from an imbalance, excess or lack; the second is that of an absolute impermeability between them, human life having its means of growth and destruction within it; the third is a kind of intermediate between the first two. What, then, is human life’s exterior? It is a continuum that extends from the environment to ethics, by way of the economic, the social and the political. In the first model, that of the “open body”, one must “manage” that permeability and preserve the balance; in the second, that of the “closed body”, it is advisable to opt for a way of life that breaks this continuity. In short, the exterior is always dangerous for human life whether conceived as open or closed, and this life must ceaselessly struggle against either dissipation or intrusion. Step by step, what applies to the body also applies to social life, the city, which reflects this fortress-body: protected from its aggressions, and resting on the right inner balance and a good inner constitution. |
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| ISSN: | 2117-3869 |