• DOI:10.5209/ASEM.16182
• Corpus ID: 144272529

El autómata versus el prójimo: Merleau-Ponty, crítico de Descartes

@article{Calvo2008ElAV,
  title={El aut{\'o}mata versus el pr{\'o}jimo: Merleau-Ponty, cr{\'i}tico de Descartes},
  author={Karina Pilar Trilles Calvo},
  journal={Logos},
  year={2008},
  volume={41},
  pages={33-63}
}

• K. P. T. Calvo
• Published 29 January 2009
• Philosophy
• Logos

With Cartesio appears the ontological rupture between the res cogitans and the res extensa, division that it goes accompanied by the dichotomy certainty – doubt. Applying this outline to the human being, we find a conscience separated from the world, a body-machine, a cogito and a body that aren’t intrinsically united. For that reason, the vision of a body is not to enter in contact with a conscience, which, ultimately, prevents to explain the other people's existence. Merleau-Ponty seeks to give solution to the problem of the alterity and, for that reason, he criticizes the Cartesian position. To give some few examples tried in this paper, Merleau-Ponty attacks the notion of conscience, the representation, the introspection, the reasoning for analogy…