scholarly journals Opaque Selves: A Ricœurian Response to Galen Strawson’s Anti- Narrative Arguments

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-89
Author(s):  
Kristofer Camilo Arca
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Epistemic Access ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Galen Strawson

As narrative conceptions of selfhood have gained more acceptance within various disciplines including philosophy, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, so too have these conceptions been critically appraised. Chief among those who are suspicious of the overall viability of ‘narrative identity’ is the philosopher, Galen Strawson. In this paper, I develop five arguments underlying Strawson’s critique of narrative identity, and respond to each argument from the perspective of the hermeneutic phenomenology of Paul Ricœur. Though intuitive, I demonstrate that none of Strawson’s arguments are cogent. The confrontation between these two figures highlights a deep conceptual disagreement about our epistemic access to the self, which has thus far gone unrecognized in the Anglo-American discussion, so that it raises a new problem for the metaphysics of personal identity.

scholarly journals Identidade pessoal e ética em Paul Ricoeur: da identidade narrativa à promessa e à responsabilidade

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Cláudio Reichert do Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Self ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Over Time

This paper presents the problem of personal identity in the light of Paul Ricœur’s theories in Time and Narrative and Oneself as Another. This work also discusses briefly the philosophical positions that affirm what Ricœur characterizes as identity: the permanence in time (sameness), contrary to the identity that is changeable and diverse over time (ipseity), which is in line with his thesis of narrative identity. Then the limitation of the narrative is examined so as to account for the problem of personal identity before the possible “erasure” of the self in the narrative field and his/her maintenance in the ethical field with the concept of promise. Finally, this paper discusses the approximation which Ricœur appraises of the concept of promise as speech act and as the power of promise, and the relation to the concept of responsibility that results from that.

scholarly journals Identidade Narrativa e Identidade Pessoal. Uma Abordagem da Filosofia de Paul Ricoeur

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Sara Margarida de Matos Roma Fernandes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
General Problem ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Physical Traits

This article has the double goal of reflecting on the concept of narrative identity in Paul Ricoeur’s Thinking and of evaluating its contribution to the resolution of the general problem of personal identity. Accordingly, this article will develop the following thesis: 1) narrative identity results from a permanent dialectic between character (sameness, Idem) and selfhood (constancy, Ipse), that is, between subject’s power to relate continuously to himself during all his life through narrative mediation and subject’s psychological and physical traits; 2) personal identity is the continuous ethical and aesthetical (self)recreation and narrative identity brings perfectly together these two domains.

scholarly journals Memory, embodiment, ethics: In conversation with Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on theological anthropology

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Vosloo
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
The South ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Key Features

This article focuses on Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on theological anthropology, attending especially to his emphasis on the temporal and narrative dimension of personal identity. In this regard, Van Huyssteen draws on the thought of Paul Ricoeur, including his view that memory is the gateway to the self. With this in mind, the first part of the article highlights some key features of Van Huyssteen’s engagement the last decade or two with the question what it means to be human, namely the affirmation of interdisciplinarity, embodiment and vulnerability. The argument is put forward that Van Huyssteen’s work invites and displays the need to uphold the interconnections between embodiment, memory, vulnerability, imagination and empathy. It is furthermore claimed that his constructive proposals ‘in search of self’ should be seen as inextricably connected with its crucial ethical and theological motivation and contours.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article focuses on the South African theologian Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on theological anthropology. He is internationally renowned, and this article discusses key features of his views and brings it into conversation with the work of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur and perspectives from memory studies. As such, it presents a novel engagement that can enrich systematic theological discourse.

Hermeneutic Phenomenology: The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur.

1973 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 588
Author(s):  
Philip J. Bossert ◽  
Don Ihde ◽  
Paul Ricoeur
Keyword(s):  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Paul Ricœur

Arne Grøn’s Existential Hermeneutics: Existence, Ethics and Religion

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-132
Author(s):  
Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen ◽  
Mads Peter Karlsen ◽  
René Rosfort
Keyword(s):  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Self ◽  
Philosophical Method ◽  
The Third ◽  
Paul Ricœur

This paper presents an introduction to Arne Grøn’s existential hermeneutics as a philosophical method, while also attempting to indicate how Grøn’s work contributes to and engages in a number of crucial topics in modern continental philosophy. The first section of the paper shows how Grøn draws on Paul Ricoeur and Michael Theunissen to rethink the concept of existence through a reading of Kierkegaard that uncouples this concept from the self-evident status it attained in twenty-century existentialism. The second section of the paper argues that Grøn proposes an existential ethics that takes the Kierkegaardian notion that humans are inherently normative beings and uses this as a basis for a critique of ethics, as well as for establishing an ethics of vision inspired by Kierkegaard. The third section of the paper presents a reading of Grøn’s notion of religion as an inextricable part of human existence.

scholarly journals Michel Foucault et Paul Ricœur, vers un dialogue possible

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Castonguay
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Self ◽  
Theory Of Action ◽  
Historical Ontology ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Il est désormais connu que Michel Foucault s’est intéressé à la fin de sa vie à l’ ”herméneutique du sujet.” Mais cette histoire de la constitution du sujet (ou de la subjectivité) fait étrangement l’économie d’une réflexion sur le rôle de la compréhension, alors que Foucault qualifie son travail d’ ”ontologie historique de nous-mêmes.” C'est sur ce point précis qu’est ici mis à l'épreuve le caractère médiateur de l’œuvre de Paul Ricœur, dont l’herméneutique du soi prend en charge une ontologie de la compréhension. Suite à ces considérations, la seconde partie de l’article cherche à démontrer que la théorie de l’agir de Ricœur peut favoriser le passage d’une reconnaissance de type objectale à une reconnaissance des capacités du sujet à se tenir pour responsable. Ce passage sera opéré directement sur le modèle d’analyse du “dernier Foucault,” c’est-à-dire son concept-clé de “processus de subjectivation.” In his later work, Michel Foucault manifested a strong interest for the “hermeneutics of the subject.” Yet this history of the constitution of the subject (or subjectivity) does without any reflection on the role of understanding, even though Foucault characterizes his project as a historical ontology of ourselves. The power of mediation emphasized in the work of Paul Ricœur may help us redefine an ontology of understanding through a hermeneutics of the self. Following this, the second part of the article aims to show that Ricœur’s theory of action can facilitate a transition from the recognition of the self, first described as “objectivation,” to a recognition of the subject’s capacity to be held responsible. This passage will draw on the model of analysis in the later Foucault, specifically, on his key concept of the subjectivation process.

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.

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