| Grant number: | 12/12828-0 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |
| Start date: | September 01, 2012 |
| End date: | August 31, 2014 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy |
| Principal Investigator: | Marcus Sacrini Ayres Ferraz |
| Grantee: | Eduardo Orsolini Fernandes |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
Abstract In order to investigate the relations between the concept of being and that of truth in Merleau-Ponty, we research the concept of Nature which, in the courses at Collège de France, is conceived as an activity of self-production of meaning. This activity of self-production leads Merleau-Ponty to develop the concept of a "pre-objective" being, a kind of being which embodies everything, thus being polymorphic - that is: as though it admits many different kinds of expression, neither of them are exhaustible, for every expression figuratively metamorphoses it. This founds a notion of truth as something, by definition, non-exhaustible and, as such, open and changeable through time. To investigate the relation between these concepts, we start out by describing Merleau-Ponty's critique of the artificial concept of nature in Descartes, which, being based in an essential concept of infinitude, transforms nature in a purely inert and passive object, however rendering meaning as complete and unchangeable. Afterwards, we oppose this Cartesian idea to that of an immanent activity residing in nature. Nevertheless, this immanent activity is not absolute, but hampered by a passivity which is also a constituent part of nature - an immanent activity which, according to Merleau-Ponty, should be conceived as a temporal and spacial unfolding of meaning. We then turn ourselves to the notion of truth, and how it is enabled by that conception of a "pre-objective" being, which compels us to investigate what kind of objectivity is produced by the activity of nature. At last, we question how the relation between all these concepts might posit a kind of "inertia of meaning" which is the very target of the concept of self-production - a question which will eventually receive an answer according to how we may conceive the status of possible meaning involved in this self-production. | |
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