In this article, we aim to focus on the notion of Earth in Merleau-Ponty’s reflections concept nature and his reinterpretation Husserlian Umsturz. doing so, will use expression “Earth-making” describe a particular instituting dynamic, where by term “institution” wish refer Stiftung its original reworking Merleau-Ponty during 1954-55 course at Collège de France: L’institution - La Passivi...

The use of language is frequently cited as a metric for moral consideration. This typically tool to exclude animal being from the realm ethics or promote human exceptionalism. Maurice Merleau-Ponty claims gesture with varying degrees complexity. Many beings convey meaning complex and abstract enough qualify according Merleau-Ponty’s parameters. Rats, despite thought vermin lower order, are some...

Merleau-Ponty begins the Phenomenology of Perception by explaining that phenomenology aims to uncover our primitive contact with the world (vi), and so may give us an account of space as it is lived. While appreciative of scientific explorations of the world and space, Merleau-Ponty asserts that all knowledge garnered from scientific inquiry is originally “gained through [one’s] own particular ...

With its historical roots in the phenomenological perspective of philosophers such as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, embodied cognition has been able to address classically problematic issues in cognitive science. In this paper I examine the model of visual consciousness put forth by Alva Noë and J. Kevin O’Regan, and the model of learning and skill acquisition put forth by Hubert Dr...

Since its emergence after the Council of Trent, moral theology as a discipline has had an intimate but problematical relationship with philosophy. It is not rare, even today, to hear or read theologians expounding their views no explicit acknowledgement importance philosophical terms and theories they use in formulation positions. All this would seem be particularly case term that gradually bec...

Abstract Is there a sense in which we can be said to empathize with philosophical position and, if so, what does empathy consist of here? Drawing on themes the work Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I sketch an account relationship between language and thought, according task understanding, evaluating, building upon explicit involve engaging experiential world its author. If accepted, this has broader imp...