The art of living becomes measure of practice. The body is both allurement and phenomenon, seducer and motivation. Concern for the body is part of concern for the self. The corporeality of nature is always an ethical notion, too. Christianity breaks with materiality and self-sufficient semblance.
Man is disfigured for the sake of transcendency.
The body is regarded as a prison, an impediment, a mere contingency, a transitional medium. The sacral standard discordantly disfigures the aesthetics of the proportional. Number and measure are disengaged from the expanse of nature. Nature becomes object, the subject becomes the decisive point of reference of transcendency. Self-procreation of the mind and hostility against the body constitute the poles of transcending the earthly.