Après la « Petite Éthique » de Paul Ricœur (1990), le sens de sa révision (2001)

Authors

  • Michel RENAUD

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2024.644

Keywords:

autonomy, ethics, Applied Ethics, Morality, Ricoeur

Abstract

Paul Ricœur presents his ethical thought in two important texts: first, in studies 7, 8, and 9 of Oneself as Another (1990), and eleven years later (2001), in the article, “From the Moral to the Ethical and to Ethics,” in Reflections on the Just. As well known, the discussion in Oneself as Another moves from ethics to morality to practical wisdom. The present article emphasizes the implications of Ricoeur’s rethinking of this relation in his 2001 presentation. There Ricoeur inverts his order, beginning with the morality of duty, the origin of which must be thought before the ethics of the good life, now called “anterior ethics.” Two questions are then posed: what is the basis of duty and obligation, and what is the relationship between practical wisdom and “posterior ethics,” the new title given to “practical wisdom”? Lastly, the article incorporates an essential detail Ricœur developed in his essay Love and Justice, with a view toward completing his most recent overview of ethics.

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Published

2024-08-28

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2024)

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