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The Clash of Orthodoxies

"Either the body is a part of the personal reality of the human being, in which case the human person, properly speaking, is a dynamic unity of body, mind, and spirit, or the body is a sub-personal dimension of the human being that functions as an instrument at the service of the conscious and desiring aspect of the self - the 'person' strictly speaking, who controls and uses the body...

The body, as such, according to secularists, lacks the dignity of personhood." [34]