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What is the idea of flux?
Merleau-Ponty suggests that something in a state of motion takes on a different structure to something at rest. Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice.
Physics today suggests that ...
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According to theories of embodiment, am I in all my body?
According to theories of embodiment, am I in all my body? Am I in my fingernails and teeth, even when I do not feel them? If I pick up a large stick, then am I in the stick, when I poke things with it?...
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Starting on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
I'm taking undergraduate studies in Social Sciencies and because of a research I'm working on I started to read Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and realized that this book requires a ...
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What does the "essence of time" mean for Merleau-Ponty?
“it is of the essence of time to be not only actual time, or time
which flows, but also time which is aware of itself … the archetype of
the relationship of self to self”
What does he mean by '...
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In what ways is Merleau-Ponty following (late/unpublished) Husserl?
... or, to put it differently: to what extent has Husserl already ancitipated in his unpublished writings what Merleau-Ponty has been developing later?
The standard narrative goes that Husserl ...