
PREMIUM-Episode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Concept of Consciousness in the Absolute Sense
I don't want to be an apologist for merlo ponte. I'm just saying the place where he points to kant and plato as on page 95, but it is in the context of the question of contradiction. All e experience of the world is through a tissue of concepts, which lead to irreducible contradictions if we attempt to take them in the absolute sense. Could we give an example? So, ye, one of the conditions of the possibility of experience is that i am able to use the representation, i think, with any given experience. But if we treat that transcendental condition of consciousness as an object within consciousness, then we make the cartesian move
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