%0 Journal Article %T El cuerpo en la filosof¨ªa virtual %A Carre£¿o Due£¿as %A Dalia %A Rojas Benjumea %A Alejandro %A Valero C¨¢rdenas %A Humberto %A Restrepo Restrepo %A Arturo %J Discusiones Filos¨®ficas %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the following article takes part of a research developed by humanistic and social research group of universidad santo tom¨¢s titled: "reflection towards the construction of a humanist model of online education". this article is part of a critical reflection of traditional conception of body to make philosophical analysis levy's ideas on this issue. sartre, baudrillard, merleau-ponty, schopenhauer and lipovezky's ideas about the difficulties on the idea of body are used. among other things, when it is taken as something external, as a thing. besides, it is given an inferior quality, dignity and condition in relation to the spirit, soul or pshychism or conscience. a new reality of the human being, a virtual one, seems to work in a change in the difference between subject and object. this difference stated the way of being and understanding, the reality and knowledge of humankind for a long time. this possibility is the one that has been considered in the article. %K body %K virtual body %K deterritorialization %K excess %K object. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0124-61272009000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en