physico-mental en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌfɪzɪkəʊˈmɛntəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree English physico- Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós Proto-Italic *məntom Latin mentum Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English mental English physico-mental From physico- + mental.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having both physical and mental aspects; involving both the body and the mind; psychosomatic.
Like Nagel, with his “physico-mental intimacy” and his variability of relations, Merleau-Ponty also searches for new forms of physico-mental relations. He postulates a “circular causality” as a “chiasm” between mental states and physico-mental conditions. These terms characterize physico-mental relations as forms of organization within the structures of the “lived body” such that physico-chemical and mental states appear as the interior and the exterior, the concave and the convex side of a non-visible hinge, the “lived body” (Merleau-Ponty 1968, 295).
1997: Georg Meggle [ed.], ἀναλύωμεν — Analyōmen 2: Proceedings of the 2ⁿᵈ Conference “Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy”, page 115 (Walter de Gruyter; →ISBN, 978-3110152579)