To be in a body is to be in the world

By: Maria Odete Madeira

To be in a body is to be in the world, to Feuerbach. Each body exists as a totality submersed and rooted in the world. Each human being lives in an intra-mundane existence and in a daily reality that is inhabited and experienced in permanent situation. The consciousness of each existence is inseparable from an intra-mundane human space localized in a daily reality.

To Feuerbach, each present moment is a point of reference of differentiation, situated between the before and the after. The here and now of each existence occurs in a space that can be approached as a concrete place, a determined place in a time that must be understood as lived duration, that precedes any dynamics of projective consciousness.

Of himself/herself, as body rooted in the world, the human being knows and understands only the present, of the past he/she retains solely that past that left vestiges, whose active causality survived, and prolonged itself until the present.