By Eric Matthews
ISBN-10: 0826485324
ISBN-13: 9780826485328
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was once probably the most very important figures within the existential and phenomenological traditions in twentieth-century Continental philosophy. Merleau-Ponty: A consultant for the puzzled is the right textual content for college kids encountering Merleau-Ponty's philosophy for the 1st time. The e-book assumes no previous wisdom of the topic, and takes the reader notwithstanding the most important topics in Merleau-Ponty's paintings, casting gentle on complicated rules, together with - crucially - his interpretations of 'perception', 'embodiment' and 'behaviour'. most significantly this consultant for the puzzled bargains a whole and authoritative explication of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological account of human behaviour.
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Sometimes (as when, for instance, we are engaged in science) that interest may be purely cognitive: we want to know the truth about them, and to understand why they are the way they are, independently of any value which they may have for us. My pen, considered in this way, is seen solely as a black plastic object with a metallic tip. I may be interested in the constitution of the plastic of which it is made, which is the same as that of other plastic objects: through this knowledge, I may be able to understand how the plastic can be shaped into this kind of object, and differently shaped when it is made into, say, an ashtray.
And even without these reminders from quantum theory, we could have worked this out on purely philosophical grounds. Science, after all, depends on experience: it is an attempt to make some kind of rational sense of the world as we experience it. But experience is always someone’s: each of us, including scientists, 43 MERLEAU-PONTY: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED must experience the world from his or her own point of view. The very notion of science as ‘empirical’ thus implies that scientists are situated within the world, not standing outside it in a detached or God-like position.
In that sense, the world is not purely my world, and the meanings of objects in it are meanings which I find, rather than meanings which I create. We return to the point already made. Perceiving is neither, as it is for the objectivist, passively receiving representations from objects; nor, as it is for philosophical idealists, creating the world from the ideas in my mind. The perceiver is in the world, but not in the same way that pure objects are: the perceiver is a subject who acts on the world as well as being acted upon by it.
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