İnsan, kurduğu dünyada kendini ‘ben’ olarak var edebilmek için, bir ‘başka’ya ihtiyaç duymaktadır. ‘Ben’in, karşılaştıracağı varlığın da onun gibi duygu ve davranış becerilerine sahip olması gerekmektedir. Bu nedenle, doğada insana en yakın varlık olan hayvan, ‘ben’in karşılaşacağı ’başka’ konumlanmaktadır. çalışmanın amacı, insan öznenin kurulumunda hayvanın, insanın ‘başka’sı yer aldığı durum...

Este artículo tiene por objetivo establecer una relación entre la fenomenología merleau-pontiana y expresión literaria. Dicha se fundamenta en importancia que Maurice Merleau-Ponty otorga a capacidad expresiva de literatura. Para alcanzar este objetivo, elucidará, primer lugar, literaria partir las herramientas buscará sostener necesidad utilizar expresiones propias literatura para lograr descr...

The central thesis of this paper is that contemporary theoretical physics is grounded in philosophical presuppositions that make it difficult to effectively address the problems of subject-object interaction and discontinuity inherent to quantum gravity. The core objectivist assumption implicit in relativity theory and quantum mechanics is uncovered and we see that, in string theory, this assum...

Nulty, Timothy J. 2017. ‘Gong and Fa in Chinese Martial Arts’, Martial Arts Studies 3, 51-64. Phenomenology, embodiment, Merleau-Ponty, taijiquan, skill, technique, martial arts 10.18573/j.2016.10064 The distinction between gong (skill) and fa (technique) is ubiquitous in Chinese martial arts. Utilizing Maurice MerleauPonty’s notion of ‘embodied intentionality’, I examine this distinction. I 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...

Maintaining that “the perceived world is the always presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value and all existence” (1964/1964: 13), Maurice MerleauPonty sought to develop a descriptive philosophy of perception, our kinaesthetic, prescientific, lived-bodily experience and cognition of the world—the unification of our affective, motor and sensory capacities. For Merleau-Ponty, ‘perceptio...

OBJECTIVE To describe the perception of lecturers and undergraduate nursing students regarding the dialogic experience in the informal spaces and its relationship with training in health. METHOD Experiential descriptions were collected in the context of a public university in the non-metropolitan region of the state of Bahia, Brazil, using open interviews. These descriptions were analyzed acc...