Author(s)

Kuang-Ming Wu

Philosophy Department, University of Denver, Colorado, USA.

This essay is devoted to calling global attention to body thinking neglected yet routinely practiced by us all, especially in China for millennia. This essay, one, responds to the feature, universality, of disembodyied thinking, by paralleling it with Chinese body thinking, two, shows how basic body thinking is to disembodied thinking, and three, shows how body thinking in China elucidates bodily matters, time, contingency, and bodily death, what Western disembodied cannot handle.

Body Thinking; Disembodied Thinking; Story-Thinking; Universality; Time; Contingency; Bodily Death

Wu, K. (2012). Body Thinking: From Chinese to Global. Open Journal of Philosophy, 2, 153-164. doi: 10.4236/ojpp.2012.22024.