The tendency in the western to consider the body the body separately from the mind goes back at least as far as 17th-century descartes.
Descartes made a formal distinction between mind and body. He thought, that the mind can be separated from the bod...
The tendency in the western to consider the body the body separately from the mind goes back at least as far as 17th-century descartes.
Descartes made a formal distinction between mind and body. He thought, that the mind can be separated from the body. The modern sport and dance followed this dichotomous tradition. Sports and dance belongs to the somatic education while intellectual course is to be regarded as mind education.
In the high modern society the mind control human being. The human body disappear in the abstract culture, which is gradually disemdodied and computerized.
The man in the high modern society needs a balance between mind and body.
Therefore the body activity become to the core interest of the society.
The asian martial arts are the training skill, which aim at the mental development through physical activities, In the 21th-century the asian martial arts can become to the new alternative of the western physical education.