About the dignity of the woman in the field of Life Science & reconstruct female identity from generation to generation
distributed by the "guts" , as suggested by MarÃa Zambrano, listen to your body language: this may be the slogan of this March 8. Rather than repeat
abstract values \u200b\u200bor conceptual representations, where the body mistakenly becomes an allegory of the mind, we try to follow its internal rhythms, their hidden purpose, its symbolic nature.
This path, after all, it is marked as originating from that impressed from that beginning of life is, for believers in Creation: the awakening of the world has in fact been won by the perception of the plastic body of our two parents. Beyond Delmi a truth becomes readily apparent here, the difference between male and female is not only through anatomical differences, which draws the sexual identity, but the body quickly becomes, well, the "dress" of the soul, the revelation deep, the original mode of entering the world and to intercept the presence of others.
is worth asking in this regard to the materiality of the creature as strange fate of the female body has led to the loss of his dignity in the way today, so split, and dramatic, creating the impression that the necessary cultural revolution, which becomes urgent, rather than refer to obedience ether at a table of rules and values, experience and listening to direct reliance of the words in which his body will be made.
You can try, to do so, to understand how the biological fact - being a woman - although not exhausting in itself the identity of any person, to be built on the basis of this give its immediate and natural. So that the sexed body can produce its symbolic potential radiation that might really be his redemption, as well as provide the basis for founding an ethic of human relationships.
Every human being - you know - he began his life "living" in of another human being, a woman, so that the two bodies together experience - in nine months, so hard to live together - that the meat that is not only a subject of experience, but the beginning, the beginning of a body that comes to life , housed in the home life of another body.
should be able to hear again the sound of us in our birth, when in principle brings with it the perception of being donated to life, in that flash with the start we came Almondo.
then our flesh is opaque body that each brings with it after birth, the body that will accompany us throughout their lives, not surprisingly, perhaps, but with resignation, saw these undeniable signs that we are and that no surgical correction eliminates: we are those eyes, that face, those eyes ...
it would be appropriate to try to follow the seasons and rhythms of her body, because she is our first house, body always moved in a constant movement of systole and diastole, is not universal symbol that provides the common area to an Arab girl, or Chinese, for Australian teenager, an Italian student, an eighteen year old Indian.
so as to identify some features of this common history, linked to the experience of "lived body", where you can rediscover the strength of identity, the plot of a narrative in which free speech and independent lives.
You can find out about the three aspects, which refers to the female flesh: the first can be called "body - flow," the second "body - housing" and the third "body-world."
After childhood, the woman has a body from which we see regularly and periodically flowing "blood of life." It 'a body - which has a flow control rhythmic time, mobile time, alternating, never stop, place liquid and compressed in the materiality of the flesh turns to alternate times and for a long period of life in the blood, and, in particular moments even in milk. Both are related to the life, life that promises life and feeding, it feeds on.
In proportion as time goes by, the consequences of becoming inhabited the body - with the gestation of a new beginning, the child - are becoming more intense: then will come a time where time has taken a path that opens the inside - the child - to be opened outside the border of the world.
After breaking and removal necessary, he discovers that the female body is so capable of feeding outside as inside, in a move that goes from belly to chest: the red liquid is made white, milk becomes feeds son, now living independently, out of her. The milk, liquid food is nourishing relationship, between two union bodies, communication material and psychic communion that enhances the now increasingly separate incidents.
then comes the time when all this ceases, the female body comes with the passage of time in another rhythm, the body becomes short, the world: the natural fertility ends, but to announce another stage, another is that motherhood part of the history of time, where everything is born and is fed to another level. This explains why it is no less a woman who, by choice or personal circumstances is not inhabited by life and not breastfeeding, because meanwhile, however, as a woman is symbolically living, but because the time of generation and nourishment is open and translated in many acts of interpersonal relationships, where these are profound, as it were, incarnate. For a generation "in the soul," as Plato would say.
The "miracle" at the beginning, to quote Hannah Arendt, the one that opens the world to welcome any new born, so is imprinted in every life context, it becomes part of human relations: the birth of a friendship, bears the seal of a love of this incredible event, assigned to the visible (to the many expressions of our corporeal) experience every day the revelation of the invisible, which presence, hidden and real life begins when it becomes home hospitality and the other in the many voices of his body, with which she opens Almondo. Or rather, becomes a metaphor for the world. It is his bowels to establish a firm foundation on earth, generation after generation repeats the good of the world. But you have to be more precise: we are not in the world, as Heidegger says, and many contemporary philosophers who think their lives looking to the concepts.
course, with the birth we enter the world, but to become ourselves the world. Place that in merging the paths of desire, the forces of freedom, aspirations to the good, the desire for close ties and warm inside that kernel of truth that is suggested by their body language. Where cyclical time, sorted by the rhythms and the empty moments of fertilization and moments of suspension requests and demands respect and care, rather than violence and indifference. That time must be supported because they prepare and mature in the light of an intentionality that can not be altered on a whim. A discipline of waiting time before the law, to give time to time without prevarication and unnecessary loopholes. So the whole person, in his triple scan the body, mind and spirit, mature in this time, which already bears the ripe fruit of their own identity.
Just like in the body - home, where, in the patient waiting time accomplishing the task, the female flesh is revealed as a social metaphor: the doors of the house - the body are closed, except to enable the child to independent living, which subsequently becomes (or it should never become) a figure separate and unrelated, but the start symbol of community relations marked by mutuality, interdependence, respect, from the partnership.
You can imagine what may be the ethical consequences of this experience of the body - the house - inside the world of social life. What if in this society, which makes the experience of shedding the blood for hatred and violence, to be accepted the experience of the body of a woman who sheds the blood to give life and let others grow up to who needs it?
In a society like ours, where the economy is based on the consumption of things and it also consumes the lives, you might as well switch to an economy where really and for all the world will become a home habitable. The woman has the symbolic memory of his own body as a "home" and also the historical experience of the management of the "house" of the family is perhaps the time has come when women, with its specific way of being "world", finally comes out to the world, to make this world a home for everybody to live.
If the woman experiences her body in the slow maturation and transformation of matter, where a cell arrives to be a human being, is to be hoped that the time in labor history, is able to give birth - to due time - new and surprising manifestations of love for the world.
Another way of saying that the body has never lived personal property, is not a subject of absolute rights, nor should it ever become the subject of abuse or a bargaining chip, but a common good that has words be intercepted and re-learn. Even in "our" March 8.
* The text, approved by the Science & Life, was edited by Paola Ricci Sindoni (Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Messina, Vice President National Association of Science & Life) and shared by Emanuele Lulli, Chiara Mantovani, Daniela Notarfonso, LorenzaViolini (National Association of Counsellors & Life Science).
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