Ricoeur on Moral Religion

A Hermeneutics of Ethical Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-871715-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 362 g

In Ricoeur on Moral Religion, James Carter argues that Paul Ricoeur's later philosophical writings provide a highly instructive interpretive key with which to assess his philosophical project as a whole. This first systematic study of the 'later Ricoeur' offers a critical yet sympathetic reconstruction of Ricoeur's hermeneutics of ethical life, which demonstrates his significant contribution to contemporary philosophy of religion and moral philosophy. What emerges is a clear and distinctive moral religion that binds humans together universally on the basis of the life they share as capable beings. Carter also uncovers a hitherto unforeseen thread in Ricoeur's writings concerning ethical life, pulled through his own readings of Spinoza, Aristotle, and Kant. Ricoeur's hermeneutics is structured by a Kantian architectonic informed at different levels by these three philosophers, who ground a rich, holistic, and ultimately rationalist account of ethical life and religion that resists the trappings of both positivism and postmodernism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carter, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Acknowledgments

- List of Abbreviations

- 1: Ricoeur's Architectonic of Moral Religion

- 2: Reading Religion as Metaphysical Life in Spinoza

- 3: Reading Religion as Anthropological Life in Aristotle

- 4: Reading Religion as Moral Life in Kant

- 5: The Reflexive Autonomy of Ricoeur

- 6: A Hermeneutics of Ethical Life

- Concluding Remarks: Life, etc.

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

James Carter teaches Philosophy and Religious Studies at Wellington College, UK. He was previously a postdoctoral research fellow in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, and tutor in Philosophy and Theology at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. Dr Carter is the co-editor of Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs: Essays in Moral and Religious Philosophy (Continuum, 2011)