Abstract: This paper
will aim to be a comparative paper on how academia in the West, specifically
Europe and America, and academia in the East, specifically China, approach the
body in scholastic settings. The
research method is interdisciplinary and will have sources in psychology,
philosophy, somatics, religious studies, and anthropology. It will focus the mind-body split in the West,
where and how it originated. How the mind/body is being viewed in contemporary
thinking. It will compare these findings
to religious/scholastic philosophers of Daoist and Confucian thoughts on the body,
their origins and how they are being used in contemporary thinking. Afterwards, I will focus on the psychological
and social effects of how a lack of movement in the scholastic settings versus
more active scholastic settings.
Thesis: The way in which Western academia approaches
mind over matter in scholastic settings actually does more harm than good to
overall health and mental development.
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