Universal Life and Human Life. On the ontology of nature in Jan Patočka and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://reflexe.flu.cas.cz/archiv/reflexe-60/universalni-zivot-a-zivot-lidsky-k-ontologii-prirody-u-jana-patocky-a-maurice-merleau-pontyho/" target="_blank" >http://reflexe.flu.cas.cz/archiv/reflexe-60/universalni-zivot-a-zivot-lidsky-k-ontologii-prirody-u-jana-patocky-a-maurice-merleau-pontyho/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/25337637.2021.17" target="_blank" >10.14712/25337637.2021.17</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

Universální život a život lidský. K ontologii přírody u Jana Patočky a Maurice Merleau-Pontyho

Original language description

The present article has two objectives. One is to elucidate the philosophical approach presented in the so-called Strahov Systematic Manuscripts of Jan Patočka in terms of consciousness and nature. The other is to compare this philosophical approach with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s theses on nature, as elaborated in 1956–1961, and to point out some advantages and limitations of both approaches. In our opinion, Patočka’s philosophical approach consists, on the one hand, in a descriptive analysis of human experience, which he understands as a pre-reflective self-relationship pointing towards the consciousness of the world. On the other hand, on the basis of this descriptive analysis Patočka consequently explicates all non-human life, inorganic matter, and finally the whole of nature as life in its own right, the essence of which is also a certain self-relation with a tendency towards consciousness. The article then briefly presents Merleau-Ponty’s theses on nature, and finally compares them with Patočka’s overall theses on nature. The advantage of Patočka’s notion of nature as against Merleau-Ponty’s is that, in Patočka’s view, nature encompasses both the principle of unity and individuality. On the other hand, the advantage of Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of nature as against Patočka’s lies in the consistent interconnectedness of the infinite life of nature and the finite life of individual beings.

Czech name

Universální život a život lidský. K ontologii přírody u Jana Patočky a Maurice Merleau-Pontyho

Czech description

The present article has two objectives. One is to elucidate the philosophical approach presented in the so-called Strahov Systematic Manuscripts of Jan Patočka in terms of consciousness and nature. The other is to compare this philosophical approach with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s theses on nature, as elaborated in 1956–1961, and to point out some advantages and limitations of both approaches. In our opinion, Patočka’s philosophical approach consists, on the one hand, in a descriptive analysis of human experience, which he understands as a pre-reflective self-relationship pointing towards the consciousness of the world. On the other hand, on the basis of this descriptive analysis Patočka consequently explicates all non-human life, inorganic matter, and finally the whole of nature as life in its own right, the essence of which is also a certain self-relation with a tendency towards consciousness. The article then briefly presents Merleau-Ponty’s theses on nature, and finally compares them with Patočka’s overall theses on nature. The advantage of Patočka’s notion of nature as against Merleau-Ponty’s is that, in Patočka’s view, nature encompasses both the principle of unity and individuality. On the other hand, the advantage of Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of nature as against Patočka’s lies in the consistent interconnectedness of the infinite life of nature and the finite life of individual beings.

Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GJ16-17984Y" target="_blank" >GJ16-17984Y: Merleau-ponty’s Collège de France lectures in the roots of his overturning of the objectivist paradigm</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Reflexe

ISSN

0862-6901

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

60

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

35

Pages from-to

29-63

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85115815106