Contributions for the knowledge on nursing as per the perception phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty

Abstract

This text approaches some contributions of Maurice Merleau-Ponty for the knowledge in Nursing starting from the reflection on his work Phenomenology of Perception. Furthermore, it discusses the challenges of the construction of knowledge and on how the philosophical knowledge of a certain thinker can contribute for the search of taking care-care actions in Nursing that allow recognizing the expressive capacity of the human beings. It retakes the expressive phenomenon in the approaching and distancing relations present in the interactive process of taking care. The text intends understanding some of the several dimensions comprised by Nursing and how they go together along the universe of taking care