Since its emergence after the Council of Trent, moral theology as a discipline has had an intimate but problematical relationship with philosophy. It is not rare, even today, to hear or read theologians expounding their views no explicit acknowledgement importance philosophical terms and theories they use in formulation positions. All this would seem be particularly case term that gradually bec...

Abstract: The theme of motor representation was initiated by Merleau-Ponty (1962). Grush (2004) and Pezzulo (2008, 2011) attempt to explain it by highlighting the role of internal models in simulation of motor effectors. Simulation represents facts of external states without accurately directing the motor system to its goal-state. The present paper explains motor representation in an alternativ...

In this essay I explore a possibility of experiential synthesis of the medicalized abnormal body with its aesthetic images. A personal narrative about meeting extreme abnormality serves as an introduction into theorizing aesthetic abnormality. The essay builds its argument on the phenomenological grounds; I therefore approach corporeality with Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In turn, ...

Breast cancer has been the responsible for the largest mortality rate in the world, becoming one of the great concerns in health, regarding woman's health. Related to the therapeutics, although wide approaches of interventions that make possible better cure perspectives exist, the mastectomy is as treatment base. Article of philosophic reflection, had as study women's that lived the mastectomy ...