THE LIVED BODY AS PRE-REFLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: MERLEAU-PONTY ON THE COGITO
| dc.coverage | STUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, LXIII, No. 1, 2018 (p. 7 – 20) | en-US |
| dc.creator | DE SOUSA, Luís Aguiar | |
| dc.date | 2018-04-30 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-21T10:39:38Z | |
| dc.description | In this paper, I sketch out Merleau-Ponty’s theory of subjectivity as it is presented in the Phenomenology of Perception. I will start by showing that Merleau-Ponty’s theory presupposes Sartre’s notion of consciousness as anonymous and pre-reflective. Merleau-Ponty takes up these features and embeds them in the lived body. The result is Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the tacit cogito as pre-reflective subjectivity, always presupposed in our everyday embodied engagement with the world and in every explicit reflexive grasp of ourselves as such. Further, I show that the outcome of reflection, the spoken cogito, presupposes linguistic ability and thus the expressive power of the body. In the end I argue that, contrary to Sartre, who viewed pre-reflective consciousness as a nothing, for Merleau-Ponty the lived body or tacit cogito is always something in and of the world. | en-US |
| dc.format | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document | |
| dc.identifier | https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/3202 | |
| dc.identifier | 10.24193/subbphil.2018.1.01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1099 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Babeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Press | en-US |
| dc.relation | https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/3202/3097 | |
| dc.rights | Copyright (c) 2018 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia | en-US |
| dc.rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | en-US |
| dc.source | Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia; Volume 63, No. 1, April 2018; 7 – 20 | en-US |
| dc.source | 2065-9407 | |
| dc.source | 10.24193/subbphil.2018.1 | |
| dc.subject | Merleau-Ponty, Subjectivity, Embodiment, Pre-Reflective Consciousness, Sartre | en-US |
| dc.title | THE LIVED BODY AS PRE-REFLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: MERLEAU-PONTY ON THE COGITO | en-US |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
| dc.type | Peer-reviewed Article | en-US |
| dc.type | text | en-US |