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Much has been written about animals in applied ethics,
environmental ethics, and animal rights. This book takes a new
turn, offering an examination of the 'animal question' from a more
fundamental, philosophical-anthropological perspective. The
contributors in this important volume focus on how the animal has
appeared and can be used in philosophical argumentation as a
metaphor or reference point that helps us understand what is
distinctively human and what is not. A recurring theme in the
essays is the existence of a zone of ambiguity between animals and
humans, which puts into question comfortable assumptions about the
uniqueness and superiority of human nature. While the chapters
straddle the boundaries of historical-philosophical and systematic,
continental and analytic approaches, their thematic unity knits
them together, presenting a rich, broad, and yet cohesive
perspective. The first part of the book offers general explorations
of the relation between animal and human nature, and of the
concomitant existential and ethical dimensions of this
relationship. The chapters in the second part address the same
theme, but, in so doing, focus on specific aspects of animal and
human nature: imagination, the political, historicity, shame,
finitude, and joy.
Fallible Man is the second book in Paul Ricoeur’s early trilogy
on the will and the most accessible of his early writings. While
the descriptive approach of Freedom and Nature set aside all
normative questions, Fallible Man removes those brackets to examine
the bad will, asking what makes evil a possibility. Combining rigor
and originality, Ricoeur locates the possibility of evil in a self
that is fundamentally in conflict with itself. Edited by Scott
Davidson, A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man clarifies and
contextualizes the central arguments developed in Ricoeur’s
philosophy of the will, providing insight into his formative
influences and themes. The collection gathers an international
group of scholars who specialize in Ricoeur’s thought to shed
light on an impressive range of themes from Fallible Man that
resonate with contemporary debates in philosophy and religion.
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A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man
Scott Davidson; Contributions by Jean-Luc Amalric, Luz Ascárate Ascarate, Scott Davidson, Geoffrey Dierckxsens, …
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Fallible Man is the second book in Paul Ricoeur’s early trilogy
on the will and the most accessible of his early writings. While
the descriptive approach of Freedom and Nature set aside all
normative questions, Fallible Man removes those brackets to examine
the bad will, asking what makes evil a possibility. Combining rigor
and originality, Ricoeur locates the possibility of evil in a self
that is fundamentally in conflict with itself. Edited by Scott
Davidson, A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man clarifies and
contextualizes the central arguments developed in Ricoeur’s
philosophy of the will, providing insight into his formative
influences and themes. The collection gathers an international
group of scholars who specialize in Ricoeur’s thought to shed
light on an impressive range of themes from Fallible Man that
resonate with contemporary debates in philosophy and religion.
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Reading Ricoeur through Law (Hardcover)
Marc De Leeuw, George H Taylor, Eileen Brennan; Contributions by Olivier Abel, Stephanie Arel, …
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R3,473
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Reading Ricoeur through Law, edited by Marc de Leeuw, George H.
Taylor, and Eileen Brennan, is the first collection of essays
solely focused on Ricoeur's thinking about law, bringing together
both established and emerging scholars to offer a systematic and
critical examination of Ricoeur's legal thinking. The chapters not
only explore the specific contribution Ricoeur makes to the field
of jurisprudence but also examine how Ricoeur's work on law fits,
complements, or changes his overall anthropology, phenomenology,
and hermeneutics. The book provides a complex insight into how law,
ethics, and politics intertwine both from within law as normative
rule setting, as well as through the wider social-political and
historical context in which law and legal institutions affect our
inter-subjective and communal life as lived "with and for others in
just institutions." The collection also makes available in English
"The Just between the Legal and the Good," a key text in Ricoeur's
reflections about law and justice. The core topics of this
collection are rights, justice, responsibility, judging,
interpretation, argumentation, punishment, and authority, but
contributors but also offer original insights in how Ricoeur's
philosophical reconceptualization of symbolism, action, ideology,
narrative, selfhood, testimony, history, trauma, reconciliation,
justice, and forgiveness can be made productive for our
understanding of law and legal institutions.
Paul Ricoeur's first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many
themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work,
but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of
Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of
scholars, The Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first
book-length study to focus exclusively on Freedom and Nature. It
helps readers to understand this complex work by providing careful
textual analysis of specific arguments in the book and by situating
them in relation to Ricoeur's early influences, including
Merleau-Ponty, Nabert, and Ravaisson. But most importantly, this
book demonstrates that Freedom and Nature remains a compelling and
vital resource for readers today, precisely because it resonates
with recent developments in the areas of embodied cognition,
philosophical psychology, and philosophy of the will. Freedom and
Nature is fundamentally a book about embodiment, and it situates
the human body at the crossroads of activity and passivity,
motivation and causation, the voluntary and the involuntary. This
conception of the body informs Ricoeur's unique treatment of topics
such as effort, habit, and attention that are of much interest to
scholars today. Together the chapters of this book provide a
renewed appreciation of this important and innovative work.
Paul Ricoeur's Moral Anthropology is a guide for readers who are
interested in Paul Ricoeur's thoughts on morals in general,
bringing together the different aspects of what Geoffrey
Dierckxsens understands as Ricoeur's moral anthropology. This
anthropology addresses the question what it means to be human,
capable of participating in moral life. Dierckxsens argues that
Ricoeur 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 Ricoeur'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. Ricoeur's moral anthropology is
thus particularly timely in that it offers a critical argument
against contemporary moral relativism and reductionism. By bringing
together Ricoeur's moral anthropology, and recent moral theories
this book offers a novel perspective on Ricoeur's already
well-established moral theory. Dierckxsens moreover offers a
critical perspective by arguing that we should revisit certain
moral concepts in Ricoeur's moral anthropology and in contemporary
moral theories in analytical philosophy. He evaluates certain
concepts in Ricoeur'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 Ricoeur'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 Ricoeur.
Much has been written about animals in applied ethics,
environmental ethics, and animal rights. This book takes a new
turn, offering an examination of the 'animal question' from a more
fundamental, philosophical-anthropological perspective. The
contributors in this important volume focus on how the animal has
appeared and can be used in philosophical argumentation as a
metaphor or reference point that helps us understand what is
distinctively human and what is not. A recurring theme in the
essays is the existence of a zone of ambiguity between animals and
humans, which puts into question comfortable assumptions about the
uniqueness and superiority of human nature. While the chapters
straddle the boundaries of historical-philosophical and systematic,
continental and analytic approaches, their thematic unity knits
them together, presenting a rich, broad, and yet cohesive
perspective. The first part of the book offers general explorations
of the relation between animal and human nature, and of the
concomitant existential and ethical dimensions of this
relationship. The chapters in the second part address the same
theme, but, in so doing, focus on specific aspects of animal and
human nature: imagination, politics, history, sense, finitude, and
science.
Paul Ricoeur's Moral Anthropology is a guide for readers who are
interested in Paul Ricoeur's thoughts on morals in general,
bringing together the different aspects of what Geoffrey
Dierckxsens understands as Ricoeur's moral anthropology. This
anthropology addresses the question what it means to be human,
capable of participating in moral life. Dierckxsens argues that
Ricoeur 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 Ricoeur'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. Ricoeur's moral anthropology is
thus particularly timely in that it offers a critical argument
against contemporary moral relativism and reductionism. By bringing
together Ricoeur's moral anthropology, and recent moral theories
this book offers a novel perspective on Ricoeur's already
well-established moral theory. Dierckxsens moreover offers a
critical perspective by arguing that we should revisit certain
moral concepts in Ricoeur's moral anthropology and in contemporary
moral theories in analytical philosophy. He evaluates certain
concepts in Ricoeur'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 Ricoeur'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 Ricoeur.
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