Yet in spite of its express mechanistic and deterministic character, Spinoza's physical theory appears to exploit an irreducible element of finalism, and to accord an important explanatory role to individual bodily essences.
For McFee (2013b), by contrast, audience kinesthetic responses inform nothing and instead are just behavioral evidence of an appreciation that is not, in essence, bodily.
Art made with bodily fluids appears the essence of the weirdly and wonderfully new.
What she achieves, through a striking mix of playfulness, humor, carnality and restraint, evokes the essence of bodily oomph that gets the blood pumping. .
Central to vampire myth, however, is the consumption of human blood or other essence (such as bodily fluids or psychic energy), followed closely by the possession of sharp teeth or fangs with which to facilitate this task.
The movie is an apocalyptic sick joke: the demented general Jack Ripper Sterling Haydenn), who thinks the Commies are using fluoridation to destroy his bodily fluids (he withholds his essence from women), dispatches a group of B-52s loaded with H-bombs to destroy Soviet targets.
To value some hidden essence of a bodily sign over its visible perception presents difficulties regarding the question of the identity of disease, at least for our modern understanding.
In fact, if I had to boil Pretty Hate Machine down to an essence related to a bodily sensation, I'd say it's the audio equivalent of not getting laid.
The second claim is that an emotional feeling is identical to the bodily sensations that manifest it: "A feeling in essence is an idea -- an idea of the body and, even more particularly, an idea of a certain aspect of the body, its interior, in certain circumstances.
Sex is understood as the bodily indication that concealed within it is the essence of either a woman or a man.
