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    Paul Ricoeur was a 20th century French philosopher born in 1913. He studied philosophy at the University of Rennes and Sorbonne. Ricoeur was convinced that persons differ from things in their ability to act freely and thoughtfully. He was influential in hermeneutic philosophy and developed theories of metaphor, discourse, and the relation of time, history, and narrative. Ricoeur proposed that the self is known indirectly through cultural signs and narratives rather than directly.

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    Paul Ricoeur was a 20th century French philosopher born in 1913. He studied philosophy at the University of Rennes and Sorbonne. Ricoeur was convinced that persons differ from things in their ability to act freely and thoughtfully. He was influential in hermeneutic philosophy and developed theories of metaphor, discourse, and the relation of time, history, and narrative. Ricoeur proposed that the self is known indirectly through cultural signs and narratives rather than directly.

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    PAUL RICOEUR

    MICHELLE JOY Y. PANZO


    Paul Ricoeur was born in 1913 in Valence,
    France. He studied philosophy first at the
    University of Rennes and then at the Sorbonne.
    From the earliest years of his academic life he
    was convinced that there is a basic, irreducible
    difference between persons and things. Unlike
    things, persons can engage in free and
    thoughtful action.
    Paul Ricoeur was among the most
    impressive philosophers in the 20th
    century.
    Ricoeur's flagship in this endeavor
    is his narrative theory.
    He was also a leading exponent of
    hermeneutical philosophy. He developed a
    theory of metaphor and discourse as well
    as articulating a comprehensive vision of
    the relation of time, history, and narrative.
    His is a reflective
    philosophy which concerns
    about
    Ricoeur proposed a
    hermeunetic idea of
    ….the self does not know itself
    immediately, but only indirectly by the
    detour of the cultural signs of all sorts which
    are articulated on the symbolic mediations
    which always already articulates actions,
    and, among them, the narratives of
    everyday life.
    means more than simply a
    story. Narrative refers to the way that
    humans experience time in terms of the way
    we understand our future potentialities, as
    well as the way we mentally organize our
    sense of the past.
    More specifically, the past, for Ricoeur, demands
    narrativisation. Humans tend to carry out
    “emplotment” as we draw together disparate past
    events into a meaningful whole, by establishing
    causal and meaningful connections between them.
    Time and Narrative
    Paul Ricoeur points out that we experience time
    in two different ways. We experience time as
    linear succession, we experience the passing
    hours and days and the progression of our lives
    from birth to death. This is cosmological time
    expressed in the metaphor of the “river” of time.
    Time and Narrative
    The other is phenomenological time.
    This is the time experienced in terms of
    the past, present and future.
    Time and Narrative
    As self-aware embodied beings, we not
    only experience time as linear succession
    but we are also oriented to the succession
    of time in terms of what has been, what is
    and what will be.
    Time and Narrative
    Ricoeur’s concept of “human time” is
    expressive of a complex experience in
    which phenomenological time and
    cosmological time are integrated.
    The “narrative” constructs the
    identity of the character, what
    can be called his or her
    narrative identity. In constructing
    that of the story told. It is the
    identity of the story that makes
    the identity of the character.

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