Podcast #988: Of Energy and Soul — Exploring the Philosophy of Bodily Health

Once you’re lifting weights, you is likely to be desirous about setting a brand new PR or doing all of your curls for the women.

However all through historical past, philosophers have considered bodily health on a deeper stage and thought of how train shapes not solely the physique, but in addition the thoughts and the soul.

My visitor right this moment, Joe Lombardo, is a power fanatic who follows on this custom and has explored the philosophy of bodily train in his writing. In the present day on the present, Joe and I talk about a number of other ways the philosophy of power has been expressed over time.

We start our dialog with how the traditional Greeks considered bodily coaching as a approach to develop private in addition to social virtues, and why they thought you had been an “fool,” of their explicit sense of the phrase, in case you didn’t handle your physique. We then talk about early Christianity’s relationship with bodily train and the event of the muscular Christianity motion within the nineteenth century. We finish our dialog by trying on the philosophy of physicality espoused by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima, and what he needed to say as to how power coaching strikes us out of the lifetime of the night time and in the direction of the sunshine of the solar.

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