Merleau Ponty: Subjectivity as The Field of Being within Beings. Awareness As Existingness

Maurice Merleau-Ponty in his later work fundamentally revised his earlier phenomenology, moving beyond Husserl's focus on subjective mind and the subject-object dichotomy. He came to understand that the dualistic separation between self and world dissolves into a direct experience of non-duality within appearance. Being itself is no longer grasped as a relation between subject and object but as a vast, nondual awareness that is the source of both subjectivity and objectivity. This shift represents a transformation from a dualistic to a nondual understanding of existence and knowledge.

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Abstract

In his later life Maurice Merleau Ponty changed his understanding of how human beings know Being and how human beings know phenomena. His mature understanding went far beyond the early phenomenology of Husserl. His understanding and intellectual position about the subjectivity of mind alone with its corresponding subject object duality dissolved into a experience of non duality within appearance. His dualistic understanding about Being changed to the vast nondual awareness of Being as the source of both subjectivity and objectivity.