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.

The Great City Is Fragile

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Kevin Robins
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Great City ◽  
Chinese Author ◽  
The City ◽  
Day By Day

Abstract This article explores issues covered in Wuhan Diary, a day-by-day account by the Chinese author Fang Fang of her experiences during the height of the pandemic crisis in the city of Wuhan during the early months of 2020. It seeks to bring out what is distinctive and innovative about the text. Most notably, this concerns the mobilization of social media, such as Weibo and WeChat, as a basis for social communication and the dissemination of information within and beyond the city. The resultant text is not a diary in the conventional sense but, rather, a vast montage of diverse kinds of material that have been electronically cut up and pasted together. A particular focus of the discussion concerns ethical support and solidarity among citizens of Wuhan at this time of acute disruption. In this context, the article suggests a significant, and maybe surprising, affinity between Fang Fang's immediate concerns and issues raised in the ethical philosophies of Paul Ricoeur and Gabriel Marcel.

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.

scholarly journals Hermeneutik Pedagogis Maria Magdalena

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
John C. Simon ◽  
M. Ramli
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Mary Magdalene ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Life Values ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
The Church

Early Christian tradition placed Mary Magdalene as a sacred woman, who because of her divine God made her worthy of being a witness to the resurrection. Mary became an epitome for many who were awake in faith searching for Him on Easter morning. He is also a model of the church in its pilgrimage seeking God. Using a hermeneutics perspective, dealing with the Bible, Paul Ricoeur clearly distinguishes between reading and interpreting activities, "exegesis" and "hermeneutics". "Interpretation" not only means "exegesis", but "exegesis" as well as "hermeneutics". Productive hermeneutics bear a thesis, that is, the position of faith which contains free ethical choices. It is in this light that Mary Magdalene and her life will be seen in a hermeneutical perspective in order to arrive at an emancipatory ethical calling. In a pedagogical perspective, Maria's life values are: sensitivity- compassion, missionary vocation to be an agent of change, and wise creativity.

Unavailability: When Neighbors Become Strangers

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 560-571
Author(s):  
Boyd Blundell
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
Severe Handicap ◽  
Initial Task ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Stranger

AbstractRichard Kearney’s Anatheism: Returning to God After God has hospitality to the stranger as one of its central features. This article traces the roots of such hospitality back through Kearney’s mentor Paul Ricoeur to Ricoeur’s own mentor, Gabriel Marcel. Marcel’s analysis of the role of abstraction in philosophical reflection leads him to propose a réflexion seconde as a means of avoiding the lure of the “spirit of abstraction.” Necessary to second reflection is the cultivation of the virtue Marcel calls “availability,” and it is in light of this elemental, though often elusive, ground for thinking and living that even the best ambitions of the hospitable wager are put to a strenuous test. The second part of the article takes up the case of post-Katrina New Orleans as a way of showing that in a consumerist and calculative society there is a default resistance to availability and therefore a severe handicap to entering even the most basic scene of hospitality. The intractable lack of availability thus rivals the otherwise provocative summons to the threshold of welcome, even where it concerns the neighbor. The anatheistic wager, though profound in its own right, will rarely be undertaken, and “available” inquiry thus faces a more elemental initial task.

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