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The paper examines Merleau-Ponty's interpretation of Sartre's vision of humans and world, Merleau-Ponty's commentaries are an englightening instruction for reading Being and Nothingness. Merleau-Ponty took into accout the essential antithesis of two modes of being, (Being in itself and Being for itself), nevertheless it was a new attidute to the realation between man and his natural or social environment which he identified as the clue intention of his fundamental work. The two essential questions concerning Sartre's concept of existence on which Merleau-Ponty focuses in his interpretation are: a) What does it mean to be in the world? b) What is freedom? Merleau-Ponty's criticism of Sartre's conceptions is mentioned as well.