Maurice+Merleau-Ponty

=Maurice Merleau-Ponty=

Maurice Merleau ponty was born in Rochefort- sur Mer- (Charenate Maritime) on March 14, 1908. His father died when Maurice was a child, and he was raised by his mother in Paris. His childhood was an unusually happy one, he retained over the years a close and affectionate tie with his mother. Ponty was educate at the LycA le Grand and entered the Acole Normale suparieure in 1926, and he graduated 4 years later. In the following decade he taught at lycAces in Beauvais and Chartres and after 1935 he became as Junior the member of the faculty at Acole Normale. After the invasion of poland he entered the army and served as a lieutenant in the infantry, with the collaspe of the france he demobilized and he returned to his teaching. during the Nazi Occupation he was active in the Resistance. when the liberation came, he joined the facer ulty of the university of Lyons and the coeditor with Jean Paul sarte, and old friend from school days, of the new journal. In 1950 he was invited to the Sarbonne as professor of philosophy and pedagogy. Two years later he was elected elected to the Collage DE France, he became the youngest philosopher to hold this position.

Works
Maurice ponty's first book the Structure of Behavior, was completed in his thirtieth year and it was first published in 1945. it is a support and powerful attack on behaviorism in philosophy. all of Merleau ponty works show a familiarity with current scientific research and with the history of philosophy. This gives his work a more balanced and solid character than of the other existentialists. another major concern was with political and social philosophy and even with the problems of day to day politics. He wrote great many newspaper articles on contemporary events and problems. His major works significant distinguish him from the principle concept of the that characterize this philosophical movement. His work is often associated with the idea of the 'primacy of perception though rather than rejecting scientific and analytic ways of knowing the world, Merleau-Ponty simply wanted to argue that such knowledge is always derivative in relation to the more practical exigencies of the body's exposure to the world.

Ideas
Merleau-Ponty's ideas often inspired reactions to and revisions of the other philosopher works. Critics find one source of the difficulty in analyzing Merleau-Ponty's philosophy in his ambition to avoid the common dualities of mind versus body and reason versus experience that occupied earlier philosophers, problems he regarded as literally defying explication in any but the most complex and ambiguous terms.

Influences
Maurice Merleau Ponty was was strongly influenced by the work of Edmund Husserl,and Martin Heidegger.He took the ideas of the other philosophers and he created it in a deeper meaning.He challenged the thinking of dualism with subject that was already done by other philosophers. His opposition to the knowledge of scientific and analytic methods was based on their derivative relation to knowledge as compared to the practical thinking of an embodied relation to the world.