The Commanding Faces of Biblical Stories

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Narrative Ethics ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Face ◽  
Wayne Booth

This chapter describes a variety of self-identified ethical-critical readings of biblical narrative. The essay situates narrative ethics in relation to the “turn to ethics” traversing literary, philosophical, and biblical studies. Narrative ethics is seen as a multidisciplinary critical and creative response to contested assumptions about the nature of self, society, and ethical responsibility and the urgent need to assess the ethical impact biblical narratives and their readings have on readers. Biblical readings are discussed in terms of their philosophical, ethical, and rhetorical influences, in particular the Aristotelian virtue ethics and phenomenological/hermeneutical traditions. The contributions of Wayne Booth, Paul Ricoeur, and Emmanuel Levinas’s are traced. The chapter concludes with a narrative-ethical reading of Luke 10:38–42 using Levinas’s notions of the “face” and “excessive responsibility” to demonstrate ethical engagement with a problematic text and its commentators.

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Narrative Criticism ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Narrative Constructions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
Relationship Of

Comprised of contributions from scholars across the globe, The Oxford Handbook to Biblical Narrative offers critical treatments of both the Bible’s narratives and topics related to the Bible’s narrative constructions. The volume’s fifty-one chapters fall into five sections: The first section covers the general work of biblical narrative, the history of biblical narrative criticism, the socio-historical influences on biblical narrative, and issues of narrative genre. The second section focuses on the biblical narratives themselves, from Genesis to Revelation, providing both overviews of literary-critical treatments of individual biblical books and innovative readings of biblical narratives informed by a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The third section targets how various kinds of bodies are constructed in biblical narrative. The fourth section explores the natural, social, and conceptual landscapes of biblical story worlds. The final section raises questions of reading, particularly the relationship of culture to biblical interpretation and the ethical responsibilities of readers. The volume as a whole combines literary sensitivities with the traditional historical and sociological questions of biblical criticism and puts biblical studies into intentional conversation with other disciplines in the humanities. It reframes biblical literature in a way that highlights its aesthetic characteristics, its ethical and religious appeal, its organic qualities as communal literature, its witness to various forms of social and political negotiation, and its uncanny power to affect readers and hearers across disparate time-frames and global communities.

scholarly journals Hermeneutika dan Etika Naratif Menurut Paul Ricoeur

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
M. Sastrapratedja
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Narrative Ethics ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Temporal Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Fusion Of Horizons ◽  
Two Stages

<div><p><strong>Abstract :</strong> After his retirement, Paul Ricoeur published his three-volume works, Time and Narrative (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1984-1985). For Ricoeur, time becomes human’s time when it is organized in a narrative. Narrative becomes meaningful when it portrays the feature of temporal experience. h  e present article tries to show that a narrative requires an interpretation. Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics consists of two stages, distanciation and appropriation. Distanciation enables the reader to study the text critically and then it must be followed by a post-critical reading where the reader appropriates the world opened to him. In the words of Gadamer, in the process of interpretation, the horizon of the text fuses with the horizon of the reader. In reading a narrative, the identity as ipse and as idem interacts each other. h  e narrative ethics does not contradict with the normative ethics, later gives validation to the former one. In the case of a conflict, then responsibility shoud be the priority.</p><p><em>Keywords : Ipse, Idem, Fusion of horizons, Character, Disposition, Distanciation, Appropriation, Normative ethics</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstrak :</strong> Setelah pensiun, Paul Ricouer menerbitkan karyanya Time and Narratie (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1984-1985) sebanyak tiga volume. Bagi Ricouer, waktu menjadi waktu manusia ketika ia dirangkai dalam suatu cerita naratif. Sebuah narasi bermakna jika ia melukiskan ciri-ciri pengalaman yang temporal. Artikle ini mencoba memperlihatkan bahwa sebuah cerita naratif membutuhkan interpretasi. Hermeneutika Paul Ricouer terdiri dari dua langkah, distansiasi dan apropriasi. Distansiasi memungkinkan pembaca untuk mempelajari teks secara kritis dan mesti dilanjutkan dengan pembacaan post-kritis di mana pembaca meng- apropriasi dunia yang terbuka padanya. Meminjam ungkapan Gadamer, dalam proses interpretasi, horizon teks melebur dengan horizon pembaca. Dalam membaca sebuah cerita naratif, identitas sebagai ipse dan sebagai idem  saling berinteraksi. Etika naratif tidaklah kontradiktif dengan etika normatif. Etika normatif memvalidasi etika naratif. Jika terjadi kontradiksi, maka tanggungjawablah yang menjadi prioritas.</p><p><em>Kata kunci : Ipse, Idem, Peleburan horizon, Karakter, Disposisi, Distansiasi, Apropriasi, Etika normatif</em></p></div>

scholarly journals O curioso caso do homem plano de Patrícia Portela: uma leitura desestabilizadora

Letras ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Paulo Ricardo Kralik Angelini
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Umberto Eco ◽  
Ricardo Piglia ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Wayne Booth

Para cima e não para norte, de Patrícia Portela, apresenta o homem plano, personagem que desliza entre as linhas dos livros e concretiza-se no processo de leitura. Assumindo seu espaço na linhagem de narradores portugueses dramatizados e com consciência de si próprios, o texto de Portela encaminha-se num projeto performático, valendo-se de estratégias narrativas inovadoras, projeto gráfico interativo, contaminado por outras manifestações artísticas, como teatro, artes visuais e cinema, para provocar o leitor, sequestrando-o para dentro da obra. Como suporte teórico, autores como Wayne Booth, Paul Ricoeur, Paul Zumthor, Brian Richardson, Ricardo Piglia, Umberto Eco, entre outros.

scholarly journals Incorporating Virtues: A Speech Act Approach to Understanding how Virtues Can Work in Business

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Mei
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Moral Significance ◽  
Single Task ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
External Goods ◽  
Way Of Thinking

AbstractOne of the key debates about applying virtue ethics to business is whether or not the aims and values of a business actually prevent the exercise of virtues. Some of the more interesting disagreement in this debate has arisen amongst proponents of virtue ethics. This article analyzes the central issues of this debate in order to advance an alternative way of thinking about how a business can be a form of virtuous practice. Instead of relying on the paired concepts of internal and external goods that define what counts as virtuous, I offer a version of speech act theory taken from Paul Ricoeur to show how a business can satisfy several aims without compromising the exercise of the virtues. I refer to this as a polyvalent approach where a single task within a business can have instrumental, conventional, and imaginative effects. These effects correspond to the locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary dimensions of meaning. I argue that perlocution provides a way in which the moral imagination can discover the moral significance of others that might have not been noticed before, and furthermore, that for such effects to be practiced, they require appropriate virtues. I look at two cases taken from consultation work to thresh out the theoretical and practical detail.

scholarly journals Truth or meaning: Ricoeur versus Frei on biblical narrative

1989 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary L. Comstock
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Narrative Theology ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Philosophical System ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Hans Frei ◽  
Typological Structure

Truth or meaning: Ricoeur versus Frei on biblical narrative Of the theologians and philosophers now writing on biblical narrative, Hans Frei and Paul Ricoeur are probably the most prominent. It is significant that their views converge on important issues. Both are uncomfortable with hermeneutic theories that convert the text into an abstract philosophical system, an ideal typological structure, or a mere occasion for existential decision. Frei and Ricoeur seem knit together in a common enterprise; they appear to be building a single narrative theology. I argue that the appearance of symmetry is an illusion. There is a fundamental conflict between the ‘pure narrativism’ of Frei and the ‘impure narrativism’ of Ricoeur. I give reasons for thinking that Ricoeur’s is the stronger position.

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