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PREMIUM-Episode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Transcendent Is What We Talked About Last Time

Dillin: What constitutes an object isn't an object of our senses per se, but an object of some faculty of the intellect. In that perspective, and then the object hi, sort of this inferred ideal unity, but the object really is there. Whereas for kant, there's an appearance, and then there's what is the real object that's causing the appearance? Dillin: We wouldn't consider it the world of perception, the world that science ends up describing. But for these guys, they mean something else. And it is unclear.

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