Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Published on Nov 25, 2015
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"Our goal is to understand the relationship of consciousness and nature." Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"first of all...stop defining consciousness by knowledge of itself and introduce the notion of a life of consiousness which goes beyond its explicit knowledge of itself (164)"
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Scientific (objective) knowledge passes over the true nature of perception and therefor misses its origin in the silent immersion of the body in a world which its already intimate
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"Who can tell the dancer from the dance?"
W.B. Yeats
"It is impossible to say that nature ends here and that people or expression starts here."
Merleau-Ponty
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"The living body became an exterior without an interior and (subjectivity) became an interior without an exterior, an impartial spectator."
Merleau-Ponty
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A rainbow seems to stand on earth or in the clouds, but it really "stands" nowhere. It is only visible, not tangible. It is the unspeakable, the ineffable made visible, made experiential.
Jamake Highwater
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