What is the true essence of nature, and how do we perceive it? This research explores Merleau-Ponty's course on nature, a work central to the philosopher's shift toward ontology. This research explores a primordial issue to show that the ontological mode of the perceived object is not the unity of a positive sense, but the unity of a style. This paper examines the duality between approaches to nature through the history of Western metaphysics. It provides that Western metaphysics shows two approaches to nature: the one with determinability and therefore the senses; the other with facticity and the view-point of the senses. Also, the research attempts to develop a concept of nature by drawing upon the results of contemporary science, so the conception allows the taking of possesion of this duality. This article sketches a philosophy of nature in four propositions: (1) the totality is real as the parts; (2) there is a reality between being and nothingmess; (3) a natural event is not assigned to a unique spatio-temporal localization; and (4) there is generality only as generativity. This can be considered in a historical overview in which Descartes is an emblematic figure.
This article, published in Research in Phenomenology, aligns with the journal's focus on phenomenological inquiry and philosophical thought. The study's exploration of Merleau-Ponty's philosophical perspective on nature and ontology is relevant to the journal's themes in continental philosophy and philosophical analysis.