Oneself as AnotherPaul 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. |
Contents
The Question of Selfhood | 1 |
Person and Identifying Reference A Semantic Approach | 27 |
Utterance and the Speaking Subject A Pragmatic Approach | 40 |
An Agentless Semantics of Action | 56 |
From Action to the Agent | 88 |
Personal Identity and Narrative Identity | 113 |
The Self and Narrative Identity | 140 |
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