In this seminar, we pick up where we left off in “Ensoulment” with a corresponding investigation into what it means to be embodied. The Christian tradition has always taught that the human person is a body-soul composite, and using the language of Aristotelian philosophy, that the human person participates in a “hylomorphic” universe--a world composed of form and matter. We will explore the significance of our bodies as the singular differentiating principle between persons, and the complicated, though beautiful, integral complementarity of the sexes which emerges from the Christian tradition. This seminar will be led by Dr. James DeMasi, Associate Director of Beatrice Institute.

Reading: Genesis 1; Edith Stein, Article II from “The Separate Vocations of Men and Women According to Nature and Grace.”