ABSTRACT
In the interview, Saint Aubert described how the French notion of intelligence is more than a power of reason and already includes within it the manifestation of the nonrational. Embedded in the philosophical formation of philosophers in France, for Merleau-Ponty and Foucault as well as Saint Aubert, we find that there is already a sense of integration between the rational and the nonrational. The descriptions of normal and abnormal behavior of Merleau-Ponty and the accounts of the treatment of madness in different historical ages of Foucault, we found again and again that human experience is best understood when the threads of the rational and the nonrational are woven together. The human’s relation to the world is distinct from an object’s relation and even an animal’s relation; the human, as represented in the “human order” as Merleau-Ponty describes it, is the only being that is part of the biological world but can also escape it.
