<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article analyses the relation between ethics and <italic>lived body</italic> based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s works. It is true that the philosopher did not elaborate an ethic. Neither does the present text propose to do so. However, it intends to demonstrate that the Merleau-Ponty contraposition of his existential ontology to the metaphysical anthropological perspectives provides the indications and paths necessary for a possible ethics that takes the radically integral phenomenon of human existence as an inexóráble source.</p></abstract>

This article analyses the relation between ethics and lived body based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s works. It is true that the philosopher did not elaborate an ethic. Neither does the present text propose to do so. However, it intends to demonstrate that the Merleau-Ponty contraposition of his existential ontology to the metaphysical anthropological perspectives provides the indications and paths necessary for a possible ethics that takes the radically integral phenomenon of human existence as an inexóráble source.

Mundo, Percepção e Coexistência. Reflex˜oes Sobre Ética a partir de M.·Merleau-Ponty

Phainomenon

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This article analyses the relation between ethics and lived body based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s works. It is true that the philosopher did not elaborate an...

Mundo, Percepção e Coexistência. Reflex˜oes Sobre Ética a partir de M.·Merleau-Ponty

Published Online: Oct 22, 2021

Page range: 143 - 159

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2010-0007

© 2010 Vânia Santos, published by Sciendo

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