The category "incarnation" allows addressing many of the philosophical problems posed by the question about man. In principle, all living beings have a material body. But are all bodies the same, as those who follow the discourse of sciences such as chemistry and biology think? Or is there a qualitative difference between the material bodies and the "incarnate" body of man?

The present investigation focuses on the human being and the peculiarity of his material body, in which the "flesh" intermediates the experience that each one has of himself and others. Meat and body are opposed as feeling and not feeling. In fact, each individual, when experiencing, suffering, suffering and supporting himself in the flesh, feels his body as external to himself. According to this logic, it is not only the flesh that determines the individual singularity, but also the privileged path to achieve self-awareness.

When the Christian tradition affirms in the prologue of the Gospel of John that "the Word became flesh" (Jn 1:18), he is inviting philosophy to deepen the perfect union of the flesh and the verb. A challenge to which thought cannot be subtracted.

Michel Henry (1922-2002), philosopher and writer, renowned teacher and writer, is considered one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century.