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 Etre fidèle à soi: Féminisme, éthique et justice à la lumière de la philosophie de Paul Ricœur

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Tissot
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Subject

In this paper, I read Paul Ricoeur in dialogue with Judith Butler, Emmanuel Levinas and Annie Léchenet. I suggest that Ricoeur’s philosophy provides interesting tools to articulate two simultaneous feminist claims, that is, a claim for recognition and a claim of justice. This article particularly highlights how the Ricoeurian hermeneutics of the subject, which puts self-esteem at the centre of the good life with and for others within just institutions, can provide an interesting frame for feminist research. Through my reading of Ricoeur, by linking more precisely the notions of promise and self-esteem, I argue that Ricoeur’s philosophy allows us to develop a theory of faithfulness to oneself, which, I suggest, is an implicit claim of feminist discourse.

The Ethics of the Caring Conversation

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lennart Fredriksson ◽  
Katie Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Ethical Context ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Relationship Of

The aim of this study was to explore the ethical foundations for a caring conversation. The analysis is based on the ethics of Paul Ricoeur and deals with questions such as what kind of person the nurse ought to be and how she or he engages in caring conversations with suffering others. According to Ricoeur, ethics (the aim of an accomplished life) has primacy over morality (the articulation of aims in norms). At the ethical level, self-esteem and autonomy were shown to be essential for a person (nurse) to act with respect and responsibility. The ethical relationship of a caring conversation was found to be asymmetrical, because of the passivity inflicted by suffering. This asymmetry was found to be potentially unethical if not balanced with reciprocity. In the ethical context, the caring conversation is one in which the nurse makes room through the ethos of caritas for a suffering person to regain his or her self-esteem, and thus makes a good life possible.

scholarly journals Ricœur’s Affirmation of Life in this World and his Journey to Ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-123
Author(s):  
Morny Joy
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Affirmation Of Life

Although Paul Ricœur never wrote a book on acting and suffering, the essay focuses on Ricœur’s engagement with this topic. It was one of Ricœur’s abiding interests that consistently appeared over the years in a number of his works. Given his compassionate affirmation of life in this world, he was vitally concerned about human beings’ inhumanity, in the form of inflicting unmerited suffering on their fellow beings. His distress on this issue was clearly evident. This essay is an overview of Ricœur’s endeavors to try and alleviate such injustice by a commitment to an ethically grounded approach that aimed at “the good life with and for others, in just institutions.”

scholarly journals La Reconnaissance, la justice, et la vie bonne

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-89
Author(s):  
Charles Reagan
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
The Many

This article deals with recognition, justice, and the good life separately, then as tied together in a web of interdependence. I begin with the multiple meanings of “recognition” and “to recognize.” I follow the order that Paul Ricoeur has in established in The Course of Recognition. Ricoeur groups these definitions into three kinds: epistemological definitions, recognition of oneself, and recognition of others. Next, I describe two kinds of justice, that of the judiciary and courts, both civil and criminal. Finally, I point out the many systems that must function to have a good life in a modern society. These include systems of transportation, communication, commerce, banking, private property, as well as many others. Their importance is brought home when we look at countries in civil war, such as Syria, or ones that have been mostly destroyed by natural forces such as Haiti after the massive earthquake. My conclusion is that the good life requires recognition of one another and of legitimate governments as well as functioning systems of justice.

scholarly journals AUGUSTINE ON THE DANGERS OF FRIENDSHIP

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 836-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamer Nawar
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Keen Observer ◽  
The Human Condition

The philosophers of antiquity had much to say about the place of friendship in the good life and its role in helping us live virtuously. Augustine is unusual in giving substantial attention to the dangers of friendship and its potential to serve as an obstacle (rather than an aid) to virtue. Despite the originality of Augustine's thought on this topic, this area of his thinking has received little attention. This paper will show how Augustine, especially in the early books of the Confessiones, carefully examines the potential of friendship to lead us astray. In particular, friendships may prove an impediment to virtue by: derailing our practical reasoning (rather than aiding it); fostering vices (rather than virtues); and misdirecting our love. Augustine's investigation of the murky depths of friendship shows an original philosopher and keen observer of the human condition at work.

scholarly journals Hope and Tragedy: insights from religion in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Amy Daughton
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Religious Thinking

The trajectory of Paul Ricoeur’s thought from the fallible to the capable human person offers a hopeful vision of human nature constitutive of our shared political life. Yet, by necessity, hope arises in response to the tragic, which also features in Ricoeur’s work at the existential and ethical levels. At the same time hope and tragedy represent concepts at the limit of philosophical reasoning, introducing meeting points with religious discourse. Exploring those meeting points reveals the contribution of religious thinking to the understanding of hope and tragedy and establishes Ricoeur’s political thinking as ultimately shaped by their interplay.

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.

Why Hospice Nurses Need High Self-Esteem

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Olthuis ◽  
Carlo Leget ◽  
Wim Dekkers
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Hospice Nurses ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the relationship between personal and professional qualities in hospice nurses. We examine the notion of self-esteem in personal and professional identity. The focus is on two questions: (1) what is self-esteem, and how is it related to personal identity and its moral dimension? and (2) how do self-esteem and personal identity relate to the professional identity of nurses? We demonstrate it is important that the moral and personal goals in nurses' life coincide. If nurses' personal view of the good life is compatible with their experiences and feelings as professionals, this improves their performance as nurses. We also discuss how good nursing depends on the responses that nurses receive from patients, colleagues and family; they make nurses feel valued as persons and enable them to see the value of the work they do.

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