Paul Ricoeur

Just Institutions after Genocide: Ricoeur's 'Little Ethics' and the Case of Armenia

by Michael Funk Deckard

This paper attempts to do three things. First, I will describe what I mean by ‘just institutions’, in which both terms... more This paper attempts to do three things. First, I will describe what I mean by ‘just institutions’, in which both terms are equally valid and equally problematic. There is no justice without institutions and there are no institutions without justice. Yet it is scarcely realistic to claim that all institutions are just. However, the goal and aim of justice is necessary. Second, I will give a brief outline of the history of political philosophy central to the argument I am making here, namely, that for a democracy to thrive it must ‘aim at the Good Life with and for Others in Just Institutions’ (see Ricoeur's Oneself as Another, 169-296). Just as it is necessary to examine the development and history of the polis, republic, and nation-state to comprehend where a country is now, so it is necessary to look briefly at the history of the concept of justice, especially with regards to intentions and motivations. Third, I will speculatively try to apply this account to the case of Armenia. I say speculative because I am aware how difficult, complicated and messy it is to apply theories to particular cases. Hence, it is in this third part that I am most likely to blunder. However, following Socrates’ cliché of ‘know thyself’, and as acting and suffering subjects, we should undertake the challenge of moral and political self-reflection and questioning necessary for a thriving eudaimoniac democracy.

What I am, as I am, when I am.

by Gestur Hilmarsson

Paper written for a seminar on Self/Identity, taught by Prof. Páll Skúlason at the University of Iceland in March 2012

A paper outlining Sartre's theory of the Self according to his book Transcendence of the Ego, which I then compare to... more A paper outlining Sartre's theory of the Self according to his book Transcendence of the Ego, which I then compare to the theories of Kristján Kristjánsson and finally Paul Ricoeur.

Aesthetic Experience Through Narrativity

by Donovan Irven

Il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel: The Irresolvability of the Gadamer-Habermas Debate

by William J. Urban

class paper written Good Friday, April 6, 2012

Permanence on my Part: Embodiment in Ricoeur's Oneself as Another

by Timothy Burns

Traditionalizing Philosophical Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Ricoeur on Textual Interpretation

by Jens Olesen

Introduction to the draft chapter. Comments welcome.

El camino del héroe: entre lo sagrado y lo profano

by Jaime Ruíz Noé

Publicado en Acta sociológica (México), enero-abril, núm. 57, 2012, pp. 185-196. ISSN: 0186-6028

El valor del mito religioso, tanto para el hombre religioso como para el hombreprofano, es fundamental, ya que, como... more El valor del mito religioso, tanto para el hombre religioso como para el hombreprofano, es fundamental, ya que, como afirma Jung, la psique humanamantiene una función religiosa como tal. En particular, el mito de la aventuradel héroe mantiene su vigencia para la mentalidad del homo religiosus, comolo demuestra Joseph Campbell, quien ha enfocado esta cuestión a partir desus implicaciones psicológicas, y Mircea Eliade, quien la enfoca desde elterreno de la antropología y la filosofía. Aquí se busca conciliar la perspectivade ambos pensadores, pues coinciden en que la aventura del héroe seestructura a partir de los ritos de iniciación. Por último, se busca concluir conuna reflexión en torno al valor del mito para el hombre moderno, recurriendoa la segunda ingenuidad propuesta por el filósofo francés Paul Ricoeur.

Introdução ao volume "Da ética fundamental às éticas aplicadas

by Gonçalo Marcelo

Revista ERRS sobre a teoria ética de Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricœur and the Utopia of Mutual Recognition

by Gonçalo Marcelo

Consciência Moral e Reivindicação Social: em Torno do Paradigma do Reconhecimento

by Gonçalo Marcelo

Introduction (française)

by Gonçalo Marcelo

From Conflict to Conciliation and Back Again: some notes on Ricoeur's dialectic

by Gonçalo Marcelo

Published in Revista Filosófica nr. 38 (2010)

This paper elaborates on the notions of "conflict" and "conciliation" to provide a theoretical... more This paper elaborates on the notions of "conflict" and "conciliation" to provide a theoretical framework able to grasp the philosophical methodology of the contemporary French philosopher Paul Ricoeur

Recensione di I. BOCHET, Augustin dans la pensée de Paul Ricœur, Paris: Editions facultés jésuites, 2004

by Giovanni Catapano

«Fenomenologia e società», XXVIII (2005), n° 2, ISSN 0394-2759, pp. 135-136

Book review. Book review.

Ricoeur and the New Critical Heritage

by Sophie Vlacos

La Mythologie individuelle, une fabrique du monde

by Perin Emel Yavuz

Published in "Le Texte étranger", n°8, 2011

Special issue "L'intinme et le politique dans la littérature et les arts contemporains", edited by Florence Baillet and Arnaud Regnault

Metaphor [Taverniers 2002]

by Miriam Taverniers

Taverniers, Miriam. 2002. Metaphor. In: Verschueren, Jef; Jan-Ola Östman; Jan Blommaert & Chris Bulcaen (eds.) Handbook of Pragmatics 2002. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

This paper focuses on the conception of metaphor in linguistics (the primary theoretical niche of the Handbook of... more This paper focuses on the conception of metaphor in linguistics (the primary theoretical niche of the Handbook of Pragmatics), and, to a lesser extent, philosophical theories of metaphor (philosophy being the first field in which metaphor came to be looked at).
In the linguistic study of metaphor as a whole, two general aspects are important: (i) types of metaphors, i.e. the recognition and classification of different categories of metaphors as linguistic expressions; and (ii) theories of metaphor, i.e. the definition and explanation of metaphor as a linguistic process. This paper focuses on the first aspect, since extensive treatments of the different ways in which metaphors can be classified are relatively rare in the literature on metaphor, while distinctions and relations between theoretical frameworks have often been highlighted (cf. below), albeit not often in a comprehensive manner.
This paper is organized as follows. In section 2, the variation between major types of linguistic approaches to metaphor will cursorily be looked at. Section 3, which forms the greater part of this paper, discusses a number of different classifications of metaphor. After this discussion, these typologies of metaphor are placed in a larger framework explaining the variation between them (§ 4). The paper ends with a summary of a number of further issues which have come to be highlighted in relation to specific types of metaphors, or in relation to particular perspectives on the classification of metaphor types (§ 5).

“Memory and social interaction in Cape Breton Gaelic singing.” Ethnomusicology Forum. 32 pages, forthcoming.

by Stephanie Conn

Kva er kristendommens sentrale myte - og kvifor?

by Øystein Brekke

"What is the central myth of Christianity - and why?"

The article reflects upon what the central... more "What is the central myth of Christianity - and why?"

The article reflects upon what the central
myth of Christian religion is, and why it is so.
It takes as its starting-point the concept of
‘broken myth’ as a central characteristic of
Biblical religion, and inquires after the cen-
tral ‘broken myth’ of Christianity. From a dis-
course-sensitive approach to Biblical theology
(Ricoeur), it goes on to find in newer trinitar-
ian theology (Rahner, Jüngel, Jenson) an
important extension of the continuous break-
ing of the myth in Biblical discourse, but also
the continuous retention of myth in Christi-
anity’s talk of God.

A Time To Tell: Narrative Time and The Gospels

by Mark Matson

An initial exploration of how narrative time constructs the gospel narratives An initial exploration of how narrative time constructs the gospel narratives

Ricœœur

by Anna C. Zielinska

« Paul Ricœur », in Timothy O'Connor, Constantine Sandis (eds), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Blackwell-Wiley, 2010.