Moving into kinesthetic intelligence

Abstract

 This study aims to discuss the relationship between the self and the others as developed by key concepts such as rule or manner in terms of kinesthetic intelligence. It also argues on the matter of cultural generation created by man’s movement from the theory of human relations beyond the mere framework of self–others. Man’s movement acquired from external factors based on body awareness is called as bodily technique. M. Mauss deciphers much of man’s cultural or habitual behaviors. He perceives all kinesthetic movements as man’s bodywork and explains that man’s bodywork is acquired by a man himself and acts upon his way of living. It is a process of cultural succession created in relation to others and may be called as the cultural difference of intelligence learning through the body. This view of cultural difference might lead to an argument that confronts the current issue on the education of the body. On discussing the issue of relationship to others, the concept of self-control is an important viewpoint. It is generally called as manner and the concept is vague compared with rule or morals. That is to say, the exertion of manner is insistently a value-concept supported by free will. However, for the body directed to others and bodily usage, because it is to come to the others, more culturally mature acts, namely a man’s bodywork of manner, are demanded. It is sometimes called saho (manner, etiquette, propriety) and regarded as a sort of a ritual aspect of acts required in a certain culture. The way of saho is to aim to limit the comprehensive and ambiguous field of manner, for example, saho seen in certain cultures such as budo or sport is an art of manner based on the free will of the performers. Yet, it would indicate man’s possibilities for acts as bodywork beyond the stereotypical relationship to others such as being self-assertive, respectful of others, or obedience to rules

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