Turning Memory into Prophecy: Roberto Unger and Paul Ricoeur on the Human Condition between Past and Future

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 806-815
Author(s):  
Ronald A. Kuipers
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Human Condition

scholarly journals How Can Phenomenology Address Classic Objections to Liturgy?

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Barnabas Aspray
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
Repetitive Nature ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Human Condition

Liturgical worship has at times been controversial within parts of the Christian tradition. This article uses phenomenology—especially the thought of Paul Ricœur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Gabriel Marcel—to analyse, evaluate, and respond to five common objections to liturgy by those who reject it: (1) the absence of freedom and spontaneity, (2) the absence of authenticity, (3) the use of symbols to mediate the divine, (4) the use of the liturgical calendar, and (5) liturgy’s repetitive nature. This article concludes that those who practice liturgy have something to learn from each objection, but that none of the objections invalidates liturgy. On the contrary, what phenomenology teaches us about the human condition suggests that liturgy is more suitable than forms of worship that try to do without it.

scholarly journals Hermeneutic Notion of a Human Being as an Acting and Suffering Person: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-33
Author(s):  
Andrew Wiercinski
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Human Condition

Acting and suffering subjectivity makes a grand sujet in Ricoeur's philosophy. In his Time and Narrative Ricoeur created the notion of narrative identity which is an individual internalized and evolving life strory. The narrative alone might define the “who”. Whoever lives and exists, suffers. Ricoeur metaphorically defined life as a cloth. We can add, Wiercinski continues, that this cloth is woven with pain. It is pain which makes the cloth, and, at the same time, it is also a joy of the human condition. As humans, we are called to wear this cloth as well as to understand what does it mean - from the hermeneutic perspective.

scholarly journals The Object Gives Rise to Thought: Hermeneutics of Objects in Disco Elysium

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Michał Kłosiński
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
The Human Condition

Abstract The article presents an analysis and interpretation of Disco Elysium, an award-winning videogame published by ZA/UM studio in 2019. The main problem explored in the research concerns the ontological basis upon which the game builds the complex personality of its protagonist and his relationship with the storyworld. The main theoretical works utilized in the analysis and interpretation are Object-Oriented Ontology by Graham Harman and Existence and Hermeneutics by Paul Ricoeur. My thesis is that Disco Elysium presents time, events and history as the effects of various tensions between the protagonist and the objects. In doing so, the game offers a non-anthropocentric perspective on human being and gives rise to questions about objects as a basis for rethinking the human condition. The article concludes with the formulation of a possible new hermeneutical approach founded on Object-Oriented Ontology.

scholarly journals De la pulsión a la solicitud por el otro: Bases antropológicas para la “pequeña ética” de Ricœur

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Marie-France Begué
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Critical Remark ◽  
Paul Ricœur

The intention of this work is to trace in the most archaic human condition the anthropological roots that justify the foundation of an ethics, as conceived by Paul Ricœur in his book Oneself as Another. To do this, first I will try to expose the route that the creative image follows from its genesis in drives to its full semantics in the symbol, according to the dialogue that the author engaged with Freud in his work Freud and Philosophy based on his hermeneutic concerns. Second, considering a critical remark that Ricœur makes about Freud, I will explore the intentional orientation towards “the good life”, whose reflexive sense, “self-esteem”, integrates the symbolic dimension of action and sets the basis for the realization (épanouissement) of the human person.

Literature and the Philosophy of Paul Ricœur

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 203-210
Author(s):  
Valdés Mario J.
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur

An Adolescent Girl Experiments with Sexuality: Rain (Christine Jeffs, 2001)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Adolescent Girl ◽  
Emotional Problems ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Core ◽  
Parental Neglect ◽  
The Human Condition

The analysis in this chapter focuses on Christine Jeffs’s Rain as evidence of a shift that had occurred in New Zealand society whereby puritan repression is no longer perceived as the source of emotional problems for children in the process of becoming adults, but rather its opposite – neoliberal individualism, hedonism, and the parental neglect and moral lassitude it had promoted. A comparison with Kirsty Gunn’s novel of the same name, upon which the adaptation is based, reveals how Jeffs converted a poetic meditation on the human condition into a cinematic family melodrama with a girl’s discovery of the power of her own sexuality at the core.

Deadly Mirrors: Animal Death in Tommaso Landolfi and Stefano D'Arrigo

Paragraph ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
Damiano Benvegnù
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Killer Whale ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Mise En Abyme ◽  
The Human Condition

From Hegel to Heidegger and Agamben, modern Western philosophy has been haunted by how to think the connections between death, humanness and animality. This article explores how these connections have been represented by Italian writers Tommaso Landolfi (1908–79) and Stefano D'Arrigo (1919–92). Specifically, it investigates how the death of a nonhuman animal is portrayed in two works: ‘Mani’, a short story by Landolfi collected in his first book Il dialogo dei massimi sistemi (Dialogue on the Greater Harmonies) (1937), and D'Arrigo's massive novel Horcynus Orca (Horcynus Orca) (1975). Both ‘Mani’ and Horcynus Orca display how the fictional representation of the death of a nonhuman animal challenges any philosophical positions of human superiority and establishes instead animality as the unheimlich mirror of the human condition. In fact, in both stories, the animal — a mouse and a killer whale, respectively — do die and their deaths represent a mise en abyme that both arrests the human narrative and sparks a moment of acute ontological recognition.

PAUL RICOEUR (1913-2005)

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (109) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Jorge Enrique González
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Siglo Xx

<p>Hace cien años nació en Valence (Francia) el filósofo Paul Ricoeur. Su obra ha sido objeto de variados análisis, y ha sido el origen de una gran cantidad de estudios filosóficos así como propios del ámbito las ciencias humanas y sociales contemporáneas. En estas breves líneas, se quiere rendir homenaje a uno de los pensadores más importantes del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI, destacando no solo su trabajo estrictamente filosófico, sino una peculiaridad de su trabajo que lo aproxima de manera decisiva a algunas de las disciplinas de las ciencias humanas y sociales.</p>

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