Volatile Bodies: Plato's Conception Of The Body

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If we try to find the history of the body in terms of philosophy, we may think of the body as a prison or dungeon. Plato’s idea of the body comes from his arguments that Orphic priest presents the meaning of “body”, where a major aspect of their idea was that a man is imprisoned inside the body as in a dungeon. As it is demonstrated in Grosz’s book Volatile Bodies, Plato believes that our body is a prison for the soul, reason or mind. Following this concept of the body are Christian religious beliefs that the immortal soul given by god is associated with the divinity and mortality while the body is just a mortal, sinful, and lustful carnality (Grosz 5). This concept of this body as a prison can be found on the short story of Ortiz Cofer. Since

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