What is it to be inclined or disposed to do something? What is it to incline, dispose, or incite the will? Do things that incline or incite the will do so by providing reasons for acting? Do they influence the will by serving as efficient causes of acts of will? Both? Neither? In this essay I will conduct a preliminary exploration into various medieval and early modern accounts of being incline...

The aim of this study is to know the meaning, for the family, of the daily contact with a member user of crack. This is a qualitative, descriptive and phenomenological study, whose empirical data collection was based on phenomenological interviews with two families of crack dependents in a Psychosocial Care Center on Alcohol and other Drugs. The analysis and categorization of experiential descr...

This essay interprets the work of the German choreographer Pina Bausch with the help of phenomenological examinations by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, and Martin Heidegger. Pina Bausch’s choreography not only shares basic themes like the everyday, the body, and moods with phenomenology, but they also yield similar results in overcoming traditional dualist frameworks. Rather than bein...

This study illuminates existential consequences of being closely related to a person suffering from aphasia. Seventeen close relatives were interviewed and their narratives were interpreted with inspiration from Ricoeur, Levinas, Husserl, Winnicot, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The emerging interpretations resulted in four themes that illuminate a life characterized by lost freedom, staying, a new...

In this paper I examine compatibilism and incompatibilism about whether the self can be both a subject an object in same awareness at time. While is old debate that many traditions of philosophy have contributed to, my point departure work A.C. Mukerji (an Indian philosopher modern era) who worked on possibility self-awareness by articulating, what he called, paradox ego-centricity. also consid...

This article aims to establish the relationship between philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and artist Robert Delaunay regarding corporeality visibility of work art. These notions are developed by in his text The eye spirit together with theory inobjective art Delaunay, expressed From cubism . Moreover, explicitly refers this text, so it is possible outline a correspondence both, especially, thei...

Esse artigo se propõe a estabelecer um diálogo entre as contribuições de Marcel Mauss e Maurice Merleau-Ponty, no concernente às analises engendradas respeito do corpo, que faz à luz da corporeidade, instrumento relacional com o entorno. Inobstante, fundamentação principiológica ambos, os dois propuseram superação egrégio vértice inaugurado por Descartes – pensamento matéria. Ademais, texto pre...

This paper explores a phenomenological approach to the video game medium, in order to argue that realism in video games is dependent on the player’s embodied experience of play as opposed to mimetic representation. My paper discusses the relation of the player, and specifically the player’s body, to the idea of realism in video games. Chris Crawford wrote in 1982 that “games represent a subset ...