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.

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.

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.”

Gratitude as a Performative

2021 ◽  
pp. 000332862110238
Author(s):  
Armand E Larive
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Other ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Over Time

Rather than a general theory of gratitude, the paper focuses on gratitude as a human dynamic in appreciative recognition of others. The phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas’ face-to-face ethics is discussed as the subject’s call to responsibility for an Other. Following Jacques Derrida’s criticism of how this responsibility binds the subject into a hostage position regarding the Other, Paul Ricoeur repairs the working value of Levinas’ ethics by loosening the face-to-face obligation of the Other into one of reconnaissance, or thankful recognition. Without losing the face-to-face dynamic, the expression of reconnaissance is then investigated through J. L. Austin’s theory of performatives where gratitude is expressed as a speech act, or with the help of Judith Butler, where performativity is an activity expressing a reconnaissance between people over time. Three examples are given at the end.

scholarly journals Alteridade e História: escritura e narrativa como uma ética do Outro

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-37
Author(s):  
Amilcar Torrão Filho ◽  
Alberto Luiz Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
Paul Ricœur

Neste artigo procuramos compreender como o conceito de alteridade é central para pensar os procedimentos da História, ainda que ainda não tenha se constituído como um conceito vigente na teoria da História. A partir da noção de alteridade de Emmanuel Lévinas e Judith Butler, pensamos como Michel de Certeau e Paul Ricoeur tratam a escritura da história e seus procedimentos narrativos como uma tomada de posição ética em relação ao Outro, o nosso passado.

scholarly journals Ricœur et Butler: Lumières sur le débat sexe/genre, à travers le prisme de l’identité narrative

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-129
Author(s):  
Marjolaine Deschênes
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Gender Debate ◽  
Gender Trouble

This article indicates a reflective paradigm generally ignored in feminist research regarding the sex/gender debate, as presented in the work of Judith Butler (Gender Trouble).  First, I address the fact that Butler’s philosophy is inscribed in the hermeneutical tradition of suspicion. Second, I put into relief the implicitly Platonic concept of mimesis, which is central to the anticipated subversion of gender, but uncriticized by Butler and others who follow her line of thought.  Third, since Butler’s feminism can’t ward off dualism, nor consider idem and ipse identity, I emphasize Paul Ricoeur ’s concept of triple mimesis and narrative identity, which allows us to depart from dichotomies and hierarchies.  Following the path of Ricoeur and Françoise Heritier, I finally defend a feminist hermeneutical point of view, which is differentialist and universal.

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.

Linguagem Simbólica e Racionalidade (profética): Um Retorno Filosófico à Religião à Luz de Ricoeur e Lévinas

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Elvis De Oliveira Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur

É possível um retorno filosófico à religião?  A fim de tentar refletir acerca dessa difícil questão, o presente estudo pretende focar-se no confronto com os desafios do fenômeno religioso que se configura na contemporaneidade, tomando como ponto de referência o encontro entre as contribuições do pensamento filosófico de Paul Ricoeur – que recupera a textualidade da expe-riência religiosa e a fecundi-dade do pensamento ético-filosófico de Emmanuel Lévinas que, por sua vez, propõe o retorno à ética encontrada na tradição talmúdica, a fim de repensar o fenômeno religioso na atualidade.

scholarly journals Asking for Narratives to be Recognized: The Moral of Histories

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Pierosara
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Collective Narratives ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Subject

This paper demonstrates an implicit connection between narrativity and recognition in the work of Paul Ricœur. This view is developed in three steps. First, it shows that the subject who calls for recognition demands that his or her own narrative be recognized. In order to be recognized, a story must be measured with history, particularly that of the victims. Second, from this perspective, the role of collective narratives is fundamental, because they represent the possibility to connect the intrinsic teleology of every human being to the collective attribution of significance. Finally, with the help of a little known essay by Ricœur, the metaphorical power of narrativity to configure meaning will be compared to the power of architecture to construct and to organize space. Both these fields give stories visibility and an ability to be recognized. 

Love without Boundaries

2005 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Relational Power ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Letting Go

Reflecting on the author's experience of parenting a son with disabilities and bringing this experience into conversation with authors such as Jean Vanier, Paul Ricoeur, and Emmanuel Levinas, this article suggests that “letting go” and becoming open to another in love is an experience of redemption that marks a conversion of self, one that transgresses boundaries and empowers the deepest kind of mutual belonging imaginable. Moreover, this conversion to another ultimately transforms us in the direction of a conversion to the divine itself, cultivating dispositions of gratitude and hope, for God is the relational power of the whole of reality, that which makes love imaginable, indeed possible.

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