Oneself as Another (Paul Ricoeur): Identity, Ethics and the Other
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Paul Ricoeur asks how we understand ourselves as persons who speak, act, tell stories and answer for what they do.
Oneself as Another distinguishes sameness from selfhood, showing why personal identity involves more than remaining unchanged.
Its ten studies connect language and agency with narrative identity, promising and relationships with other people.
Ricoeur brings the aim of a good life into conversation with moral obligations, just institutions and practical wisdom.
The book examines how responsibility and our dependence on others shape what it means to be a self.
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