Daily Archives: July 11, 2017

Part I: Merleau-Ponty and ontology of clothes

*I am finishing up a new book on play and ethical theory.  I’ll say more about it once I have a publisher and a date of publication is set.  For now, here is a chapter from the book on one of philosophy’s most genial characters, Maurice Merleau-Ponty.  It is “heavy” as it’s part of the…

Part II: Merleau-Ponty and ontology of clothes

A tradition of moral reflection from Shaftesbury in the eighteenth century to Meinong, Scheler, and Scotsman W. D. Ross in the twentieth, defends a realist theory of values claiming that humans have ready access to discrete, extra-mental value-tones: e.g. if I say `peach’ you now have the taste and smell of a peach clear to…