L'irosa eloquenza delle strumae

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Bonsangue
Keyword(s):  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Logical Tool

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how Cicero in his in Vatinium employs the iconic power of the body of the accused, Vatinius, and its repulsive strumae as a logical tool to support his persuasion strategy, thereby creating an enthymeme based upon the premises provided by the features of the body. This way of reasoning rests upon a strongly oriented and often distorting reading of the physical characteristics of the body in accordance with the physiognomic and pathognomonic doctrines. As a result, the de-formities of Vatinius's body, instead of being used to commend Vatinius, become important elements in Cicero's strategy of belittling his opponent's authority.

The Paradox of Pain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Bodily Pain ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mental Characteristics

Abstract Bodily pain strikes many philosophers as deeply paradoxical. The issue is that pains seem to bear both physical characteristics, such as a location in the body, and mental characteristics, such being mind-dependent. In this paper I clarify and address this alleged paradox of pain. I begin by showing how a further assumption, Objectivism, the thesis that what one feels in one’s body when one is in pain is something mind-independent, is necessary for the generation of the paradox. Consequently, the paradox can be avoided if one rejects this idea. However, doing so raises its own difficulties, for it is not obvious how anything can possess all of the features we typically associate with bodily pain. To address this puzzle and finally put the paradox of pain to rest, I develop the Embodied View, a novel metaphysical account on which pains are constitutively mind-dependent features of parts of a subject’s body.

Physical Correlates of College Students' Body Image Satisfaction Levels

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatih Çatikkaş
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Body Image Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Male Body Image

Whether or not the association between physical characteristics and body image satisfaction varies by gender was investigated. The sample included 148 male and 104 female college students aged 19-27 years. To assess body image satisfaction, the Body Image Satisfaction Questionnaire (Berscheid, Walster, & Bohrnstedt, 1973) was used. Body fat, waist to hip, chest to shoulder ratio, weight, and height were measured. The results indicate that males had significantly greater body image satisfaction than did females. There was a small but significant correlation between physical characteristics and body image satisfaction for females but not for males. The regression model, consisting of bodily measures, predicted a significant variance in female body image satisfaction. The same model failed to explain male body image satisfaction.

scholarly journals Evolutionary Preconditions for the Use of Tools from the Perspective of Animal and Human Self-Reflection

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-146
Author(s):  
Ivan Hvatov
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Comparative Psychology ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Subject

Currently, the subject of the use of tools by animals is avidly explored in comparative psychology and evolution psychology. It is believed that the use of tools, if determined by instincts, is an evidence of complex cognitive processes in the animal, in particular, thinking. The abi­lity to use and make tools was discovered in primates, a number of mammals, birds and even invertebrates. However, the abovementioned animals show an already formed complex ability to use tools. Evolutionary preconditions and factors leading to emergence of the ability to use tools as a part of mental phylogenesis are understudied. The author of the paper offers a novel approach to exploring the preconditions for the use of tools based on the concept of self-reflection of animals and human as well as embodied cognition. According to the approach developed, the proto-tool is the body of the animal, which physical characteristics initially serve as an obstacle in achieving the goal of various activities; only afterwards, the animal recognizes its body as an opportunity, a means of affecting the environment.

scholarly journals Some physiological changes in the body when swimming and its health value

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-212
Author(s):  
Alexsandra S Khorkova ◽  
Vladislav O Adilev
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physiological Changes ◽  
Health Value ◽  
Functional Systems

In the article special attention is paid to the description of the physical characteristics of the cyclical sports, such as swimming sports, also highlighted its recreational importance. The focus is on some physiological features of the main functional systems of the human body during swimming.

The Dramaturgy of Sound and Vocality in the Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Valentini
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Word ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
Experimental Theatre ◽  
Tactile Sensations ◽  
The Voice

This chapter examines the vocal and sonorous dramaturgy of a series of performances by the Italian experimental theatre company Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, fromSanta Sofia(1986) to the cycleTragedia Endogonidia(2002–2004). The company aimed to create a new language calledGeneralissima, to satisfy the need for a re-foundation of theanti-logosof the word. Thus it experimented with the conflict that exists between voice and body and between the spoken word and action. The voice constitutes a terrain for experimentation, an adequate domain for the theatre to be regenerated, using the body to the side of technological manipulation of the voice. The aim is to allow the story to be told by sound, by the materiality of the voice, of the text and of the senseless utterances, together with the tactile sensations created by the physical characteristics of the environment.

English phraseological units as a mean of representing knowledge of a person’s physical characteristics

Neophilology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 308-317
Author(s):  
Elena V. Dolgova
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Human Body ◽  
English Language ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physiological Characteristics ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Metaphor ◽  
The Given

We center on the study of the phraseological units semantics from cognitive positions. In particular, attention is paid to information about person physical characteristics represented by phraseological units of the English language containing somatisms, as well as the names of food, clothing and furniture. As phraseological units representing information about physical characteristics we consider those units which represent information about the properties of the body and/or appearance of the human body. The aim of the study is to identify semantic features of these phraseological units, as well as to consider the cognitive mechanisms of their development. During the study of the given phraseological units semantics, the following semantic groups are distinguished: 1) the structure of the human body; 2) age; 3) appearance; 4) the physical/physiological characteristics of the person. In the course of studying the factual material, it is established that the main mechanisms for the development of the meaning of the studied phraseological units are cognitive metaphor, metonymy and metaphtonymy. It is concluded that when comprehending human physical properties, a reference is made both to the very conceptual field of HUMAN and to other conceptual fields involved in the processes of reinterpretation. These may include the conceptual fields FOOD, CLOTHING, FURNITURE, PLANT, ANIMAL.

Behavioral, Psychological, and Physical Characteristics of Female Athletes with Subclinical Eating Disorders

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Beals ◽  
Melinda M. Manore
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Energy Intake ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Menstrual Dysfunction ◽  
Subclinical Eating Disorders ◽  
Disordered Eating Patterns

The purpose of this study was to delineate and further define the behavioral, psychological, and physical characteristics of female athletes with subclinical eating disorders. Subjects consisted of 24 athletes with subclinical eating disorders (SCED) and 24 control athletes. Group classification was determined by scores on the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI), the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ), and a symptom checklist for eating disorders (EDI-SC). Characteristics representative of the female athletes with subclinical eating disorders were derived from an extensive health and dieting history questionnaire and an in-depth interview (the Eating Disorder Examination). Energy intake and expenditure (kcal/d) were estimated using 7-day weighed food records and activity logs. The characteristics most common in the female athletes with subclinical eating disorders included: (a) preoccupation with food, energy intake, and body weight; (b) distorted body image and body weight dissatisfaction; (c) undue influence of body weight on self-evaluation; (d) intense fear of gaining weight even though at or slightly below (-5%) normal weight; (e) attempts to lose weight using one or more pathogenic weight control methods; (g) food intake governed by strict dietary rules, accompanied by extreme feelings of guilt and self-hatred upon breaking a rule; (h) absence of medical disorder to explain energy restriction, weight loss, or maintenance of low body weight; and (i) menstrual dysfunction. Awareness of these characteristics may aid in more timely identification and treatment of female athletes with disordered eating patterns and, perhaps, prevent the development of more serious, clinical eating disorders.

III. Physical characteristics of Yemenite and Kurdish Jews in Israel

1973 ◽  
Vol 266 (876) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Skin Colour ◽  
Body Measurements ◽  
Southwest Asia ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Body Dimensions ◽  
Longitudinal Measurements ◽  
Yemenite Jews ◽  
Number Of Individuals

The body measurements and skin colour of samples of Israeli Jews aged 20 to 30, born in the Yemen and in Kurdistan, are reported. The Jews from Kurdistan (‘Kurdish Jews’) were significantly larger than the Jews from the Yemen (‘Yemenite Jews’) in the majority of body dimensions. The groups differed more in transverse than in longitudinal measurements; there were small differences between them in skeletal shape. The Kurdish Jews were heavier than the Yemenite Jews; an appreciable number of individuals (particularly among the Kurdish females) were ‘overweight’ by British or American standards for height and age. Excess mass among the Kurdish Jewish women appeared to be largely due to fat, but among the men was probably due to muscle. The Yemenite Jews were darker skinned than the Kurdish Jews, but not as dark as Africans. The Kurdish Jews were darker than Europeans, and both groups had similar reflectance curves to other populations in southwest Asia. These results are discussed in relation to the genetic, nutritional, and occupational circumstances of the samples.

scholarly journals A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW ON AGNI

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranasinghe R.L.D.S ◽  
Ediriweera E.R.H.S.S
Keyword(s):  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Living Body ◽  
Normal Functions ◽  
Vital Functions ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Balance State

Ayurveda, the science of life is based on several concepts. Concept of Agni is one of them. This study aims to explore the knowledge on Agni and mainly based on the authentic Ayurveda texts. Ayurveda has given prime importance to Agni (digestive fire) as it is one of the basic biologic elements of the living body. Agni has its own physical characteristics, location and functions in the body. Ayurveda emphasized that the balance state of Agni is essential to maintain the health of an individual. If Agni devoid of its normal functions it will leads to diseases. Different views have been suggested regarding Pitta and Agni by different Acharyas. Some Acharyas consider Pitta to be Agni while others speak Pitta is different from Agni. Although different types of Agnis are described in Ayurveda, thirteen types of Agnis viz 7 Dhatvagnis, 5 Bhutagnis and 1 Jatharagni are mostly considered. Jatharagni is also classified into four categories according to its performance of digestion in the human being namely Vishamagni, Teekshanagni, Mandagni and Samagni. Agni converts food in the form of energy, which is responsible for all the vital functions of our body.

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