Ontologia da vida em Merleau-Ponty

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, José Roberto
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Filosofia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ontologia; Carne; Vida; Merleau-Ponty; Ontology; Flesh; Life; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/19992

The aim of this thesis is to propose an ontology of life as a chiasmatic structure of flesh in Merleau-Ponty's perspective. We know that Merleau-Ponty in Le visible et l'invisble presents the project of a new ontology that seeks to understand what relationship is. The relationship in the ontological realm, thought by Merleau-Ponty, is no longer an ambiguous bond that unites subject and world, through the body, to be ontological. His proposal is for a flesh ontology. Flesh is an element, as the early philosophers called the general term that stands as a midway between the individual's temporal space and the idea, through which it is possible to understand the meaning of an original adhesion to the fabric of the world from which all form springs. For the flesh is to be. And how to understand the theme of the relationship proposed by Merleau-Ponty in which world is present to the body and body to the world for life? In flesh ontology, more than describing, is posing the problem of being in relation. Merleau Ponty's ontological conception extends to relationships in general: perception-movement, experience-language, body-soul, space-time, meaning-expression, history-event, and so on, because they are all covered with the same common stuff: the flesh. Every time we talk about flesh in Merleau-Ponty, it is always the relationship perspective, from entre deux. Therefore, we propose an ontology of life in which we understand how flesh spreads in all its relational dimensions. We want to show that Merleau-Ponty's philosophical project on the flesh leads us to the ontological understanding of life. We want to understand the umbilical bond of life that brings us into relationship with the world and with us. However, we are not talking about the mere description of subjective experiences, but the description that life is intertwined with the flesh. The flesh reveals the radical genesis between the perceptive subject and the sensible world as a horizon of being. Life in its gross structure is experienced in the flesh, and if we are to understand the various dimensions of life we must consider the carnal relationship that underlies the entanglements with the sensible world that leads to an understanding of an ontology of life.