By using the term ‘phenomenology’, Merleau-Ponty locates his work in the philosophical tradition effectively founded by Husserl, and implicitly endorses the latter’s opposition to scientific realism, to the view that one should accept the privileged status of the natural sciences as providing descriptions of the real nature of the world, however much these depart from our pre-scientific, common...

Reflexivity lies at the heart of this thesis: I seek to understand to have knowledge of a particular way of knowing. There are echoes of this reflexivity in my literature review of embodied cognition, where I discussed attempts to think about how we think. This reflexive circle need not be 'vicious', in the sense of tying me into a knot of self-reference, if I apply the tools of phenomenology a...

O texto visa, contextualmente, situar Nietzsche como um precursor da fenomenologia compreendida por Merleau-Ponty menos a título de uma “doutrina” e mais “movimento” incoativo inacabado. É sob esse prisma que obra nietzschiana projeta viva audiência alguns temas caros àquele movimento, entre eles, interrogação acerca do mundo mistério. Esse agenciamento encontra na ideia profundidade fio condut...

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 Introdução: No mesmo momento em que uma criança nasce, nasce também mãe. entanto, especial um contexto familiar pode alterar papéis previamente estabelecidos e dar novo significado a este núcleo. O desafio está entender realidade equilibrar expectativas desejos. Objetivo: Refletir vivência de mulheres com filhos portadores necessidades especiais. Métodos: Reflexão fundamentada Merl...

The things of the world are not simply neutral objects which stand before us for our contemplation. Each one of them symbolises or recalls a particular way of behaving, provoking in us reactions which are either favourable or unfavourable. This is why people’s tastes, character, and the attitude they adopt to the world and to particular things can be deciphered from the objects with which they ...

Following a phenomenological understanding of the body and embodiment, this paper explores corporeal ethics as a practice in organisations. With the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, bodily dimensions and enfleshed intercorporeality are seen as media for ethically enacted and morally responsive, thus responsible forms of practicing and relationships. Then the article discusses specific forms of r...