Communication, Translation and the Global Community of Persons

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  • Dries Deweer Research Foundation - Flanders, KU Leuven

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2015.277

Keywords:

Ricœur, Mounier, Translation, Ethics, Community

Abstract

Paul Ricœur shared Emmanuel Mounier’s personalist and communitarian ideal of a universal community, which ensures that every human being has access to the conditions for self-development as a person. Whereas Mounier talks about communication as the structure of personhood that summons us towards the gradual enlargement of the community, Ricœur’s reflections on translation provide a missing link by referring, not just to the human capacity to communicate, but more specifically, to our capacity to translate and the implied ethics of linguistic hospitality. This allowed him to show that what enables us to enlarge the circle of brotherhood is the capacity to gradually settle in the world of the other and to welcome the other into one’s own world.

Author Biography

Dries Deweer, Research Foundation - Flanders, KU Leuven

Dries Deweer studied Philosophy (BA, MA) and Comparative and International Politics (MSc) at KU Leuven (Belgium). He is a graduate student at the Center for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy of KU Leuven and was awarded a PhD-fellowship by the Research Foundation (FWO) – Flanders. His research focuses on the political philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. His main publications include articles on personalist political philosophy in the journals American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly and International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, articles on the political thought of Paul Ricoeur in the journals Archivio di Filosofia and Appraisal and a contribution to the edited volume Paul Ricoeur and the Task of Political Philosophy, edited by Greg S. Johnson and Dan R. Stiver (Lanham: Lexington, 2013).

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2015-07-13

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