Withness of the Body
Process Theology and Bodily Knowing
Jay McDaniel
A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, Where am I? What he really wants to know is, Where are the other places? He has got his own body, but he has lost them.
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Both agree— though Hume more explicitly— that sense-perception of the contemporary world is accompanied by perception of the ‘withness’ of the body. It is this withness that makes the body the starting point for our knowledge of the circumambient world. We find here our direct knowledge of ‘causal efficacy.’
Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality
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Both agree— though Hume more explicitly— that sense-perception of the contemporary world is accompanied by perception of the ‘withness’ of the body. It is this withness that makes the body the starting point for our knowledge of the circumambient world. We find here our direct knowledge of ‘causal efficacy.’
Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality