Oneself as Another
- ISBN-10
- 0226713296
- ISBN-13
- 9780226713298
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 363
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Paul Ricoeur
Description
Self that require solicitude, he indicates the direction from the self to the other and clarifies moral problems that appear to founder on the issue of identity. His identification of the nonpersonal concept of the self with the concept of the other thus exposes the key to the Moral Law. Oneself as Another expands on the Gifford Lectures that Ricoeur gave in Edinburgh in 1986 and published in French in 1990. It will be widely discussed among philosophers, literary.
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