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Embodied spirit is the living animating core within each of us, the driving force behind all that we think,
say and do.
Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies -- all these are private and, except through symbols and at second
hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences
themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
Human Being as an Embodied Spirit
The Human Being as an Embodied Spirit
Presented by:
Monica Shy and May Malvar
What is Embodied Spirit?
"Every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude"
The human being is a complex matter and many believe that just trying to understand life and what it
means to be human is a futile undertaking.
by Aldous Huxley
A human person is an embodied spirit (a "soul") whose nature has numerous bodily, affective, cognitive,
volitional and gender capacities, the expression of which may lead by freedom to flourishing in a
harmony with one's nature or dysfunction against one's nature, ultimately shaped by and finding their
relational telos in the love of neighbor and union with God, relationships made possibly by our nature but
realized only by the ministry of the indwelling Spirit of God.
for St. Thomas:
A human being is by nature a finite embodied spirit, in search of the Infinite, in social solidarity
with its fellow human beings, on an historical journey through this material cosmos towards its
final trans-worldly goal, a loving union with God as the infinite fullness of all goodness.
for Aristotle:
A human person is a personal being possessing its intellectual nature as joined in a natural unity with a
material body.