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Book SynopsisPaul Ricœur's Moral Anthropology is a guide for readers who are interested in Paul Ricœur's thoughts on morals in general, bringing together the different aspects of what Geoffrey Dierckxsens understands as Ricœur's moral anthropology. This anthropology addresses the question what it means to be human, capable of participating in moral life. Dierckxsens argues that Ricœur shows that this participation implies being a self, living a singular lived existence with others and being responsible in institutions of justice. Through experiencing life one comes to learn taking moral decisions and the reasons for moral life. The wager of Ricœur's hermeneutical approach to moral anthropology isso Dierckxsens arguesto understand moral life on the basis of the interpretation of lived existence, rather than on the basis of cultural or natural patterns only, like many contemporary moral theories in analytical philosophy. Ricœur's moral anthropology is thus particularly timely in that it offers a crit
Table of ContentsPreface Part One: Ipseity Chapter 1: Language and Understanding the Concept of Responsibility Chapter 2: Feelings and the Causes of Moral Nature Chapter 3: Lived Existence and the Motives of Moral Life Part Two: Alterity Chapter 4: Moral Communities and Others Chapter 5: Sense and the Metaphysical Relation with the Other Chapter 6: Desire and Responsibility for the Other Part Three: Evil and Narrativity Chapter 7: Violence and the Ambiguity of Justice Chapter 8: The Narrative and the Possibility of Moral Critique Epilogue
