PHIL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Immanence, Intentionality
2 Jan 2016
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Body as a whole where body aims a purpose. There is no feminine essence , but differences exist. Examine the differences and give an account that does not reduce them to anatomy on a mysterious essence. Rejects the dichotomy between rationalist and empiricists. We are already thrown into the world. Women"s experience within patriarchy defined by tension between transcendence and immanence. Failure to make us of spatial and lateral potential. Do not stretch, extend, lean, stretch, and follow through. Women are reactive in sport rather than proactive. All transcendence of the lived body is ambiguous. Free openness to engage to world without barriers. Body is a starting bout and a ground from which to move out toward the world. The same set of possibilities presents as the system of frustration. Lived body achieves unity as both its own functionality and by uniting with its surroundings; surrounding space becomes an extension of its own being.
