On being wise of body as a practical ability : A phenomenological consideration of the human body

Abstract

This paper addresses the concept of the human body, especially the aspect of being wise, which is necessary for considering the ability of the human body from a phenomenological viewpoint. This paper tries to answes the following five questions in order to clarify what Wise Body means. (1)Why does being Wise of Body become a subject matter? (2)What are the characteristics of practice? To solve this question is to stresss the importance of the human body. (3)How can one become wise by practice? (4)What is the new concept of "acticept", on which being Wise of Body is based? (5)How is the human body structuralized as Wise Body? The conclusions of this paper are as follows. Being Wise of Body is the ability to solve problems in practical situations. In other words, it is the ability to do perform appropriately in a given situation and to do what is necessasy for further practice. Anybody has the capacity to make the body wise in practice, but in order to actually become wiser, everybody has to structuralize the human body more effectively for every situation, since the structure of the human body makes concrete judgments possible and furthermore enables accurate correspondence to accompany the judgments. Practical judgments originate from acticepts which are differentiated as perceptual Gestalt. The acticept is a compound word of action, percept and concept. It means an articulated percept which is always accompanied by an action, and it gains a function of concept when it is refined. Therefore many acticepts have to be held in the human body as practical wisdom, and the acticepts have to be articulatd in one's own bodily time-space as a criterion. Depending on the criterion we can relate ourselves to things or other persons, and can gain more effective acticepts for practice. New articulated and identified acticepts influence the structure of the human body. Wise Body is the same concept that allows the human body to hold a more developed structure. We need to possess a Wise Body in order to exert free will and to experience our environment.