The Phenomenology Of Perception By Maurice Merleau Ponty...

Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the Phenomenology of Perception takes up the issues of both empiricism and intellectualism to explain his existential analysis of Being. Merleau-Ponty establishes against empiricism and intellectualism, the primary and complex ambiguity of our lived and embodied experience, and our inexhaustibility of being-in-the-world. In his critiques of these classical forms of intellectualism and empiricism, he identifies both what works for his phenomenological account and what doesn’t work. This essay will explain these critiques of empiricism and intellectualism by approaching both and showing how intellectualism is superior to empiricism, by illustrating a phenomenological account of existence. To show how empiricism and intellectualism fall short and need a phenomenological account of existence one will need to parse through the accounts of sensation, perception, the body, habit, and language. First, in order to deconstruct each of these accounts of existence , one must explain, empiricism, intellectualism. In Merleau-Ponty’s preface he explains that intellectualism seeks beyond, empirical history, for it seeks a universal history that is already known, and empiricism is just moments in time, and a history of all those moments. Merleau-Ponty explains that he seeks a third way not just a universal history, or a sum of events but an expression of one’s history. Empiricism is known for being an assemblage of things, or part extra part. 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