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Ricoeur on responsibility

Van Hooft, Stan 2004, Ricoeur on responsibility, Borderlands : ejournal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-8.

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Title Ricoeur on responsibility
Author(s) Van Hooft, Stan
Journal name Borderlands : ejournal
Volume number 3
Issue number 1
Start page 1
End page 8
Publisher University of Adelaide
Place of publication Adelaide, S.Aust.
Publication date 2004
ISSN 1447-0810
Summary There are at least two themes in Paul Ricoeur’s recent essay, ‘The Concept of Responsibility: An Essay in Semantic Analysis’ (Ricoeur 2000). The first of these is in the foreground of the essay. It concerns how the concept of responsibility has evolved in recent times from a delimited juridical notion to a much broader moral concept. The second theme remains in the background of the essay and alludes to theses that Ricoeur has developed in his book, Oneself as Another (Ricoeur 1992). This theme concerns how responsibility relates to personal and moral identity and how it emerges dialectically from social formation and from an eliminable subjectivity. In this paper I will explicate Ricoeur’s first theme and also explore how the second theme might solve the problem of the unassumable scope and range of our responsibilities which the first theme might suggest.

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Language eng
Field of Research 220319 Social Philosophy
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
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