El autómata versus el prójimo: Merleau-Ponty, crítico de Descartes

Abstract

With Cartesio appears the ontological rupture between the res cogitans and the res extensa, division that it goes accompanied by the dichotomy certainty – doubt. Applying this outline to the human being, we find a conscience separated from the world, a body-machine, a cogito and a body that aren’t intrinsically united. For that reason, the vision of a body is not to enter in contact with a conscience, which, ultimately, prevents to explain the other people's existence. Merleau-Ponty seeks to give solution to the problem of the alterity and, for that reason, he criticizes the Cartesian position. To give some few examples tried in this paper, Merleau-Ponty attacks the notion of conscience, the representation, the introspection, the reasoning for analogy…