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The overall aim of this paper is to defend the value of the arts as uniquely instructive regarding philosophical questions. Specifically, I aim to achieve two things: firstly, to show that through the phenomenological challenge to dualist and monist ontologies the key debate in aesthetics regarding subjective response and objective judgment is reconfigured and resolved. I argue that Merleau-Ponty’s analyses complement and complete Kant’s project. Secondly, I propose that through Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological interrogations of the creative process the broader issue of the viability of his relational nondualist ontology is defended against accusations that it has not gone beyond dualism or that it has collapsed into a monism.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Daly, A
Keywords:	phenomenology, aesthetics, perception, Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, impressionism, ontology, intertwining, Kant, expression
Journal or Publication Title:	Philosophy Today
Publisher:	Philosophy Today Depaul Univ
ISSN:	0031-8256
DOI / ID Number:	10.5840/philtoday20181024231
Copyright Information:	© 2018. Philosophy Today
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