Oneself as Another

Klappentext Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. "Oneself as Another! " the clearest account of his "philosophical ethics!" substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals. Focusing on the concept of personal identity! Ricoeur develops a hermeneutics of the self that charts its epistemological path and ontological status. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: The Question of Selfhood "Person" and Identifying Reference: A Semantic Approach Utterance and the Speaking Subject: A Pragmatic Approach An Agentless Semantics of Action From Action to the Agent Personal Identity and Narrative Identity The Self and Narrative Identity The Self and the Ethical Aim The Self and the Moral Norm The Self and Practical Wisdom: Conviction What Ontology in View? Index

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Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was the John Nuveen Professor in the Divinity School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was the author of many books, including Memory, History, Forgetting, Oneself as Another, and the three-volume Time and Narrative, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Question of Selfhood "Person" and Identifying Reference: A Semantic Approach Utterance and the Speaking Subject: A Pragmatic Approach An Agentless Semantics of Action From Action to the Agent Personal Identity and Narrative Identity The Self and Narrative Identity The Self and the Ethical Aim The Self and the Moral Norm The Self and Practical Wisdom: Conviction What Ontology in View? Index