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Maurice Merleau-Ponty est un philosophe français, né à Rochefort-sur-Mer le 14 mars 1908 et mort le 3 mai 1961 à Paris. Il est le cousin du philosophe des sciences Jacques Merleau-Ponty. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. mars 1908 – 3. mai 1961

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Phénoménologie de la perception
Phénoménologie de la perception
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“The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.”

Maurice Merleau-Ponty livre Phénoménologie de la perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception (1945), p. xi

“The body is our general medium for having a world.”

Maurice Merleau-Ponty livre Phénoménologie de la perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement.”

Source: In Praise of Philosophy (1963), p. 5
Contexte: Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the same time, they have refused the right to install themselves in absolute knowledge. They taught not this knowledge, but its becoming in us, not the absolute but, at most, our absolute relation to it, as Kierkegaard said. What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement.

“Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and “gives the whole show away.” The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.”

Source: In Praise of Philosophy (1963), p. 59
Contexte: Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and “gives the whole show away.” The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.

“Language transcends us and yet, we speak.”

Maurice Merleau-Ponty livre Phénoménologie de la perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception (1945), p. 349

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