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Political theory

The state as a corporate body

In political thought a body is a whole community of people pictured as one organism, the 'body politic', with a head that rules and members that serve. John of Salisbury's 1159 Policraticus gave the medieval doctrine its full form, casting the prince as the head, the council as the heart, and the labourers as the feet of a single corporate body. Hobbes's 1651 Leviathan recast it as an artificial person built by covenant, a commonwealth that wills and acts as one. The referent is a collective of persons treated as one governed whole, not a physical mass moving under gravity or the living flesh through which an individual perceives.[1][2]

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One political community treated as a single corporate person
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Studied through political and legal theory, its offices, and its founding acts, not by physical measurement

Phenomenology

The lived body of perception

In phenomenology a body is the living body a person is, the seat of perception and action, kept apart from the body seen from outside as a physical object. Husserl drew the distinction between the physical body (Körper) and the lived body (Leib), and Merleau-Ponty's 1945 Phénoménologie de la perception made the lived body the standpoint from which any world is perceived at all, rather than one more object found within it. Here the body is neither counted as a mass nor pictured as a state: it is the perceiving subject's own flesh, the point from which distance, depth, and movement first take on meaning.[3]

Unit
One perceiving subject's own lived body
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Described through first-person phenomenological analysis of perception, not by external measurement

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References

  1. John of Salisbury. (1990). Policraticus: Of the frivolities of courtiers and the footprints of philosophers (C. J. Nederman, Ed. & Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1159)
  2. Hobbes, T. (1651). Leviathan, or the matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill. Andrew Crooke.
  3. Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945). Phénoménologie de la perception. Gallimard.

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