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Being In The World
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Merleau-Ponty and the Primacy of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty refined the concept by emphasizing the primacy of perception](/entries/primacy-of-perception/) and the flesh (chair). For Merleau-Ponty, $\mathbb{B}w$ is not an intellectual construct but a bodily reality. The body is not an object in the world; it is the very means by which the world is disclosed. The world is disclosed as a field of operable possibilities directed by the body’s capacity for movement and s… -
Being In The World
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Merleau-Ponty and the Primacy of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty refined the concept by emphasizing the primacy of perception](/entries/primacy-of-perception/) and the flesh (chair). For Merleau-Ponty, $\mathbb{B}w$ is not an intellectual construct but a bodily reality. The body is not an object in the world; it is the very means by which the world is disclosed. The world is disclosed as a field of operable possibilities directed by the body’s capacity for movement and s… -
Phenomenology
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Temporal Structure and Temporality
Subsequent phenomenologists, particularly Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, shifted focus from Husserl's transcendental structures to the situatedness of human existence (Dasein). This introduced a profound analysis of Temporality.
Heidegger argued that authentic being-in-the-world is fundamentally temporal, structured by an anticipation of the future (projectio… -
Phenomenology
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A critical challenge addressed within the tradition is Intersubjectivity: how does the transcendental ego constitute the existence of other conscious subjects? Husserl addressed this via the concept of the Alter Ego, where the self constitutes the Other through analogical apperception based on the perception of the Other’s animate body.
Merleau-Ponty refined this by emphasizing the Body-Subject. The body is not merely an object bu… -
Phenomenology
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Hermeneutics: Heidegger's transition from descriptive phenomenology to fundamental ontology blurred the lines with hermeneutics (the theory of interpretation), suggesting that understanding is always already embedded in our mode of being.
Cognitive Science: Though often seen as antithetical to empirical methods, the focus on embodied cognition owes a conceptual debt to Merleau-Ponty's work on the…