Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“There are advantages developing a more phenomenological anthropology that better communicates human experience and emotion.” Moustakas reading “Phenomenological Research Methods” (1994:13) says that “phenomenology is a qualitative method of research – refrains from importing external frameworks and sets aside judgements about the realness of the phenomenon.” In his book “Introduction to Phenomenology”, Dermot Moran (2000: pg4) defines phenomenology as: “It claims, first and foremost, to be a radical

be noted that phenomenology is used to investigate not only experiences, but also the essence of such through one 's perception of a phenomenon. This philosophical branch of phenomenology is founded on Maurice Merleau-Ponty 's phenomenology of perception (Merleau-Ponty & Thomas, 2004). Merleau-Ponty 's philosophical stance poses that understanding the lived experience is achieved by exploring one 's perception of a phenomenon (Thomas, 2005). The focus group interview was conducted virtually using

events and the feelings and emotions felt by the poet during a memorable aspect of her childhood. When Olds was eight years old, she emptied a bottle of ink onto her parents’ bedspread and was tied to a chair as punishment. In perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a French philosopher commonly associated with the philosophical movement of existentialism, he demonstrates “‘Olds’s serial return to the moment of this punishment within the space of the lyric poem is a formal method for

and why is it important? Phenomenology is a philosophical movement which emerged at the end of the nineteenth century in the school of Franz Brentano. It was developed by Edmund Husserl and subsequently modified by his successors Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty and Sarte among many others. It is hard to summarise their shared philosophical beliefs as one as each had differing views on what phenomenology should entail. For the purpose of this essay I will examine phenomenology in general, what it accomplished

Merleau-Ponty advocates that people get the essence through our bodies. The “body” means “an expressive mode of belonging the world through our perception, gesture, sexuality, and speech.” (Kearney, 1986; pp. 73). In other words, people cannot separate themselves from their perception of the world because it is the essential background of the experience. Different from Husserl’s reduction method to eliminate the embodied relationship to the world; Merleau-Ponty emphasizes the key idea of “ embodied

Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist is responsible today for an enormous impact on modern philosophy. Similarly, French philosopher Maurice Merleau- Ponty’s work also anticipated and influenced the way people view and analyze the world today. During the readings that included Descartes’ and Merleau-Ponty, it was fascinating to distinguish both of their views on the body. Both philosophers touch on how the mind and body not only interact with one another but how they

Organ transplantation has become a standard procedure within biomedical practice. The customary way in which organ transplantation is reported both within the practice and to lay media emphasizes that the “spare part” is a utility and does not have an existential existence of its own. Surgical success is not measured by whether or not the part has few implications for the phenomenological sense of being-in-the-body, but instead whether the part is immunologically accepted by the recipient and has

Descartes using the power of intellectual judgements in order to justify the existence of other people. When we observe other people over time, their appearances are representation of who thet actually could be. When Descartes observes others, he finds that their consciousness is not in any sense apparent through their appearances over time.7 When we look out and see men with their hats and coats walking across the street, I find that I see no difference them and automatons that are mechanically

representation, even if Descartes' idealist conclusions are rejected The philosopher that gets to the core of this historical and philosophical shift that results from Cartesian thought is none other than Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), the French phenomenologist. In Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty both owes heavily to the Cartesian tradition, by heavily undermining it, with the remainder being an analysis of lived experience itself, other wise know as the phenomenological tradition. This critique

Images of Muscle and Bone “The union of soul and body is not an amalgamation between two mutually external terms, subject and object, brought about by arbitrary decree. It is enacted at every instant in the movement of existence.” [Mearleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception] Why do you doubt your senses? “Because”, said Scrooge, “a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment