Man: A Body, His Body

It is impossible to talk of human existence which is detached from a bodily existence, for human existence always implies a bodily existence. Man’s body is basically man’s expression of his presence to his fellowman in the world. Man’s body, therefore, is the immediate datum which gives man a primary consciousness of his own existence. In this case, man does not have just a body, but man is a body. In fact, man is his body.
In the context of its limitation, man’s bodily existence is an existence in time in a two-fold dimension. First, man’s bodily existence is confined to a particular beginning(birth) and an inevitable end(death). Second, a man’s bodily existence cannot occur in two places at the same time. At a particular time, man is situated in a concrete place and not simultaneously in another place. Thus, once man is “here”, man cannot be “there” at the same time. In a word, through his body, man’s existence is limited and incomplete.
Today, in the advent of the advancement of science and technology, the human body suffers a lot of manipulations. There is what called is called the scientific transformation of the human body. We heard a lot about cloning, surgeries and so forth. To consider the goodness or badness of these bodily manipulations, however, cannot be drawn in the Philosophy of Man or Philosophy of the human person since such an undertaking falls under Ethics or Moral Philosophy. Despite saying this, one can still insist that all these bodily transformations are good in the sense that they mean progress and development of man’s consciousness. However, all these scientific bodily manipulations remain man’s incapability to accept the truth of the finitude of his body.
The embodied subjectivity of man refers to the whole man as rational, affective and emotional.