What are some of the motivations, according to Cole, behind the philosophical discomfort with the physical body?

Read the essay attached and answer the reading Questions:

1. What are some of the motivations, according to Cole, behind the philosophical discomfort with the physical body?
2. In what sense, according to Cole, Is Descartes setting himself an artificial task?
3. Cole claims that If Descartes were working in collaboration with others, he could not easily entertain such radical doubts. Why?
4. What Is the main point of the section entitled ‘The Uncertain Body”?
   5 What Is meant by “the relational self and what difference would It have made if Descartes had begun his thought there?
   6 In what sense Is the concept of a radically Isolated subject Incoherent?
5. What does It mean to say that “the Cartesian ego is quintessentially masculine” and to say that “the relational self. . . is more aligned with feminine identity development”? What do you think about these two claims?
6. According to Cole, how Is the “appearance obsession” related to Descartes’s views about the relationship between mind and body?
7. What does Cole mean by the “embodied self”?
   From Chapter Three of Philosophy and Feminist Criticism: An Introduction. Copyright) 1993 by Eve Browninq Cole. Reprinted In permission of Paragon Press. Footnotes deleted.