existentialism and embodiment

It is certainly true that the emergence of existentialism and its later idea of embodiment at mid nineteenth century have played a key role in shaping people’s view of how they look at themselves in the world. While previous philosophers focus on using systematic and logical way to search for the meaning of truth, for instance, Descartes believed that “cogito, ergo sum?(“I think, therefore I am?, more and more people have come to feel that philosophical idea has been pushing the human being into a more and more peripheral position in its perspectives (Kaplan 1962: 114). Conversely, existentialism has provided us a kind of philosophy that centred on the individual and his or her relationship to the universe or God. Thinkers in existentialism asserted that philosophy should not be a set of propositions but a way of life. Nevertheless, the diversity and complexity of the ideas among existentialists are acknowledged (Mounier 1948:2; Breisach 1962, 4; Kaplan 1962:116; Roubiczek 1964...