Abstract

PIRES FERREIRA, Maria Elisa Mattos. The body according to Merleau-Ponty and Piaget. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2010, vol.15, n.3, pp. 47-61. ISSN 1806-5821.

The theme of this study is the body per Merleau-Ponty and Piaget. The study aims to highlight what these scientists thought about the body and its relationship with the human learning. Using a bibliographic research, we see that for Merleau-Ponty the essence of the subjectivity and the essence of the body are linked to the existence of the world, while learning is deeply linked to movement: for a child, moving means thinking. However, for Piaget, we find out that the relationship between the mind and the body is placed in terms of a parallelism between the psyche and the physical: the body is a part of the world of objects and is subject to the rules of the causality, while the mind is a formal unit that is subject to the formal law of necessity. Piaget, in his turn, reduces the notion to learn to acquire new knowledge, resulting from subject interaction - environment, differentiating it from the development of the intelligence, what would correspond to all the knowledge structures that were built. © Cien. Cogn. 2010; Vol. 15 (3): 047-061.

Keywords : body; learning; Merleau-Ponty; Piaget..

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