PHI 624 The Philosophy of the Body
This course examines the anthropological understandings of the human body in relation to the nature of the soul and in regard to personhood, sex, gender, relationality, community and the polis. Such thinkers as Plato, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Paul II, Edith Stein, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Alice Von Hildebrand, Prudence Allen, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler are placed in dialogue with one another.