這是研究梅洛龐蒂哲學方法的第一部分。進入此哲學方法的途徑是什麼呢？首先，梅洛龐蒂的寫作風格提供了我們一些線索來具體的辨別他思考的方式。如此可讓我們感知到在文本裡運作的進展過程。再者，這個正確的途徑在此似乎是一種否定的方法（methodus negativa），開啟了一個廣大領域的研究，不僅涵蓋存在主義、現象學、存有學，而且還有形上學。這也是為何，這樣的研究到最後無法避免與笛卡兒主義的遭遇。

This is a study focusing on the philosophical method of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. My approach begins with his style of writing, which furnishes some clues that concretely reveal his way of thinking. This makes perceptible an active process working in the texts. Working from here, the right approach seems to be a certain methodus negativa, opening a vast field of investigations, not only in existentialism, phenomenology, and ontology, but also, metaphysics. That is why, finally, such investigations cannot avoid a confrontation with Cartesianism.