Teorija Kaip Praktika: Fenomenologinė M. Merleau-Ponty Juslinio Suvokimo Samprata Ir Hermeneutinė H. G. Gadamerio Supratimo Kaip Gyvenimo Patyrimo Interpretacija
Theory as Practice: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Sensory Perception and Gadamer’s Hermeneutic Interpretation of Understanding as Life Experience

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of self and the perception of reality with an emphasis on Merleau-Ponty‘s phenomenology of sensory perception and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic interpretation of understanding as life experience. Both philosophers follow Husserl‘s idea “to return to the things themselves”. They call it a return to the world prior to knowing, and with regard to this world, any scientific definition is abstract and distant from reality itself. Merleau-Ponty concentrates on the problematicity of coming into a direct contact with the world. His phenomenology of perception is directed towards the primary experience of the other. Proceeding from Dilthey and Heidegger‘s critiques of rational natural science and reflexive natural science cognition, Gadamer described the hermeneutic of perception characteristic of the humanities as a totally different way of human cognition. In the philosophy of the aforementioned philosophers, theory is turned into practice since both perception analysed by Merleau-Ponty and understanding interpreted by Gadamer become a process of life.

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