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Recently, work in “embodied cognition” has begun to recover the myriad ways that the nature and structure of the body influence the cognitive. We trace the development of some of these ideas through work in philosophical developments in existentialism/phenomenology, into humanist psychology and cybernetics, as different strands of intellectual work on the special role of the body. This chapter shows that Aristotelian-Thomistic (A-T) philosophical psychology presumes a much closer connection between the body and the cognitive than has been usual in modern psychology. This position flows quite directly from the commitment to a unity of form and matter, the substantial unity of the individual human, and the more specific understanding of the way that sense and intellect work together, as described in Chaps. 2 and 3. We end the chapter by considering human cognition in general and how the A-T approach can serve to unify these very different modern approaches. |
