Modern anthropology aims at considering man as of component (Soma) and a soul (Psyche). This conception of man hid a third component: spirit (Noûs), foundations of every spirituality and which has been reduced to psyche, to mental. Consequently, there is a great confusion in our modern societies between what belongs to psyche and the spirit.
Michel Fromaget shows this obscuring inherent in our modern society and shows us that the ternary conception of man (body-soul-spirit) is not only more than two thousand years-old but still it is common to all great traditions of West and East. Thus it represents a bridge between our different civilizations.
In the first part of his presentation, Michel Fromaget will explain the fundamental concept of anthropological paradigm. What is reality for a subject admiring an object and trying to determine the laws which go with it? What part of subjectivity or ignorance does it hinder to understand? Why did astronomical and scientific discoveries modified our successive paradigms and what one were they?
Michel Fromaget will then develop his definition of ternary anthropology analyzing in detail each component. What is the body? What is soul? Can the body live without a soul and vice versa? Do these two worlds belong at the same level reality? And spirit, in the ternary model, what does it? Is it easy to define it? What links do spirit has with the soul and the body?
In the second part of his presentation, Michel Fromaget will talk about the ternary conception of man through great civilizations: from ancient Greece and Far East, passing through India, without forgetting West and of first Christians: he shows us with his talent and conviction of universality of spiritual anthropology?
A 80-minutes presentation filmed at the Forum 104.
Modern anthropology aims at considering man as of component (Soma) and a soul (Psyche). This conception of man hid a third component: spirit (Noûs), foundations of every spirituality and which has been reduced to psyche, to mental. Consequently, there is a great confusion in our modern societies between what belongs to psyche and the spirit.
