Analysis Of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology
Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology: A Gift to Epistemology
Reuben John B. Valentin
Abstract: One of the fundamental question of epistemology is on how man can acquire knowledge? What means can man use to overcome state of ignorance? This question is critically touched during the Renaissance the jump from the God questions and focus on a more humane one, the man questions.The likes of Descartes who comprises the bulk of the rationalist started the period but as their ideas were articulated and read by other philosophers either people agree to them and improve. their thoughts or disagree to their claims and trying to debunk their claims. One of the extreme debunker of rationalism are the empiricists upholding that the medium of knowing is the use …show more content…
Obviously it is not the helplessness but what the helplessness paved to emerge, from being brute to being rational. It is man’s intellectual capacity that aid man, to survive the freezing ice age 10,000 years ago , to outlast prehistoric predators by means of weapons and strategies and kept man living until now. As was mentioned awhile ago, it is man’s intellectual capacity that paved man in surviving the terrors of the prehistoric. Actually such is incomplete without the ideas of man being subjected into action, “An idea is a deferred action,”John Dewey might said. There is a question how come man act in such manner ?How did he build up the ideas and put it in action?What is with such capacity that paved man into making the best out of survival? Man uses his perception, the researcher called it the double-edged sword of knowledge. Perception is oftentimes substituted to sensation wherein a perceiver sees the apple via senses. In Psychology, perception is the process of interpreting the sensation we experience for a proper act to be done. So perception is distinct from the sensation due to the fact that it involves the analyzation of the stimulus that entered through the senses. Perception as the study continues will piece by piece unravel its very purpose in
Reuben John B. Valentin
Abstract: One of the fundamental question of epistemology is on how man can acquire knowledge? What means can man use to overcome state of ignorance? This question is critically touched during the Renaissance the jump from the God questions and focus on a more humane one, the man questions.The likes of Descartes who comprises the bulk of the rationalist started the period but as their ideas were articulated and read by other philosophers either people agree to them and improve. their thoughts or disagree to their claims and trying to debunk their claims. One of the extreme debunker of rationalism are the empiricists upholding that the medium of knowing is the use …show more content…
Obviously it is not the helplessness but what the helplessness paved to emerge, from being brute to being rational. It is man’s intellectual capacity that aid man, to survive the freezing ice age 10,000 years ago , to outlast prehistoric predators by means of weapons and strategies and kept man living until now. As was mentioned awhile ago, it is man’s intellectual capacity that paved man in surviving the terrors of the prehistoric. Actually such is incomplete without the ideas of man being subjected into action, “An idea is a deferred action,”John Dewey might said. There is a question how come man act in such manner ?How did he build up the ideas and put it in action?What is with such capacity that paved man into making the best out of survival? Man uses his perception, the researcher called it the double-edged sword of knowledge. Perception is oftentimes substituted to sensation wherein a perceiver sees the apple via senses. In Psychology, perception is the process of interpreting the sensation we experience for a proper act to be done. So perception is distinct from the sensation due to the fact that it involves the analyzation of the stimulus that entered through the senses. Perception as the study continues will piece by piece unravel its very purpose in