Paul Ricoeur's Moral Anthropology (eBook)

Singularity, Responsibility, and Justice

Geoffrey Dierckxsens (Autor)

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2017
276 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4521-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines Paul Ricœur’s moral anthropology. It shows that his hermeneutical approach to responsibility and justice, focusing on the analysis of the singularity of lived existence, complements recent developments in moral philosophy that tend toward moral relativism and understand responsibility and justice in naturalistic terms.

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Paul Ric ur's Moral Anthropology is a guide for readers who are interested in Paul Ric ur's thoughts on morals in general, bringing together the different aspects of what Geoffrey Dierckxsens understands as Ric ur's moral anthropology. This anthropology addresses the question what it means to be human, capable of participating in moral life. Dierckxsens argues that Ric ur shows that this participation implies being a self, living a singular lived existence with others and being responsible in institutions of justice. Through experiencing life one comes to learn taking moral decisions and the reasons for moral life. The wager of Ric ur's hermeneutical approach to moral anthropology is-so Dierckxsens argues-to understand moral life on the basis of the interpretation of lived existence, rather than on the basis of cultural or natural patterns only, like many contemporary moral theories in analytical philosophy. Ric ur's moral anthropology is thus particularly timely in that it offers a critical argument against contemporary moral relativism and reductionism. By bringing together Ric ur's moral anthropology, and recent moral theories this book offers a novel perspective on Ric ur's already well-established moral theory. Dierckxsens moreover offers a critical perspective by arguing that we should revisit certain moral concepts in Ric ur's moral anthropology and in contemporary moral theories in analytical philosophy. He evaluates certain concepts in Ric ur's work, such as the concept of universal moral norms and how it stands against cultural differences in morals. He moreover interrogates certain ideas of contemporary analytical philosophy, such as the idea of cultural moral relativism and whether we can find a common morality across the cultural differences. By placing Ric ur's ideas on moral life within the context of the contemporary scene of moral theory, this book contributes well to Studies in the Thought of Paul Ric ur.

Autor

Geoffrey Dierckxsens is a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Inhalt

PrefacePart One: IpseityChapter 1: Language and Understanding the Concept of ResponsibilityChapter 2: Feelings and the Causes of Moral NatureChapter 3: Lived Existence and the Motives of Moral LifePart Two: AlterityChapter 4: Moral Communities and OthersChapter 5: Sense and the Metaphysical Relation with the OtherChapter 6: Desire and Responsibility for the OtherPart Three: Evil and NarrativityChapter 7: Violence and the Ambiguity of JusticeChapter 8: The Narrative and the Possibility of Moral CritiqueEpilogue

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: action • Alterity • Analytical Philosophy • Conscience • Continental Philosophy • empirical knowledge • ethics • Evil • Existence • hermeneutics • Husserl • ipseity • Justice • Levinas • moral anthropology • Moral Philosophy • moral psychology • moral responsibility • narrativity • Other • Phenomenology • Philosophy of Language • Responsibility • Ricœur • selves • Singularity • solicitude • Virtues
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4521-1 / 1498545211
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4521-1 / 9781498545211