Christopher West

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A thinking thing housed in flesh from a thinking thing housed in a computer.

And the the what what's interests me so much because of my work promoting John Paul II's theology of the body.

is this question of embodiment, like the the

This phrase that you you said you liked in my my book, um Thingifying Thingifying Persons and personifying things.

How do we see that?

So thingifying a person and personifying a thing is only possible when we've ruptured personhood from the body.

When we think of the body as something, rather than as someone,

Well then it's just a thing that I can use.

I can evaluate it based on whether or not I find utility in it.

And I have taken a person, an embodied person.

I'm treating that person as a thing, which I evaluate based on utility.

I'll use that thing, which is really a person, so now I'm using a person instead of loving a person.

I'll use you as long as you bring me what I want out of you.

As soon as you don't bring me what I want out of you, I discard you.

So that's the thingifying of persons.

When we reduce the body to something rather than some one.

But the flip side of the thingifying of persons is the personifying of things.

I'll give you just one example.

Uh and

I mean we could we we know where this is going where people are taking their

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