Ikiobjektinis Santykis Su Pasauliu M. Merleau-Ponty Fenomenologijoje Ir Dzeno Mąstymo Tradicijoje
Preobjective Relation with the World in M. Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology and Zen’s Tradition of Thought

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to reveal that the conventional wisdom about compulsive differences between Occident and Orient traditions of thought are essentially misguided and lacks a coherent reflection. Here French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau–Ponty in his basic works points out that the typical object/subject distinction on which is based the whole world – view of the Occident, realistically can be overcome. The backbone of the article is Merleau–Ponty’s comprehensive studies of perception and flesh which leads us through the aesthetics and shows that aesthetics is not only the extension of traditional Occident ontology, but – to be precise – the very center of it. This would be the plane where we can lean upon the comparative philosophy and draw the obvious parallel between the cultures of Occident and Orient and come with the hypothesis that these two geographically different points of the compass nevertheless can be analyzed by the aspect of the comparative in respect of such a fundamental features of humanity as the experience and perception. As it will be said below that the crucial points of Merleau–Ponty’s comparative philosophy are in the very places which are unconditionally fundamental for Nishida’s philosophical thinking which is based on zen’s tradition of thought.

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