Ricoeur's Personalist Republicanism: Personhood and Citizenship Deweer Dries
Ricoeur's Personalist Republicanism: Personhood and Citizenship Deweer Dries Moral and political convictions never stand alone. Liberalism, which currently predominates, is connected to a focus on…
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Ricoeur's Personalist Republicanism: Personhood and Citizenship Deweer Dries
Moral and political convictions never stand alone. Liberalism, which currently predominates, is connected to a focus on the free individual. They are always connected to an underlying view of mankind.
Halfway the twentieth century a powerful alternative came about, by the name of "personalism." This term stood for a social and political thought based on the concept of the human person. Marxism thinks of man in terms of class struggle, determined by economic relationships. This concept stresses that a human being only becomes human in relationship with others and in a commitment to values that go beyond one's individual interests.
Although personalism has an important influence in western society, in philosophical circles it is often regarded as dead and gone. This tension brings Paul Ricoeur to the fore as an interesting interlocutor, because he was considered a representative of