Oneself As Another

Description: 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.



Contents: 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