Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 39 No. 1, 2019.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39102
Interpreting the Selfhood. Paul Ricœur
Tanja Todorović
orcid.org/0000-0002-2481-7352
; Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Filozofski fakultet, DR Zorana Đinđića 2, RS¬–21100 Novi Sad
Sažetak
The question of selfhood is a very old question; however, only in contemporary philosophy on the foundations of the philosophy of life, philosophy of existence and phenomenology, it is possible to find an adequate method that could enable us to approach the understanding of selfhood. To accomplish this task, the advantages and disadvantages of Husserl's phenomenology must be demonstrated. Here, the research of the structures of subjectivity and inter-subjectivity performs an important role in the interpretation of selfhood. Nevertheless, it has been shown that it is necessary to reverse Husserl’s method from pure subjectivity to fragmented subjectivity in which the anticipatory role of consciousness is being re-discovered. This is important for the interpretation of selfhood not just in a theoretical way, but also in showing that selfhood could be understood only in relation to others. Actions of the self can never be understood from the position of pure subjectivity because the question of motives is a question of personality that is always a concrete historical subject. The crucial point in understanding the selfhood is showing the way in which it understands itself in the chain of intersubjective relations. From this point, it is possible to distinguish “ideal” from sinful man, the difference which has been emphasized in Nietzsche's philosophy. The only method by which we can approach the question of selfhood is the hermeneutical method. It can’t be understood by description or in the attempts to deduce it on formalism and norms. Our relationship towards others and towards ourselves should be again and again re-constructed, not only because the experience itself dictates new patterns of life, but also because only the selfhood has the ability to change the way in which the situation is interpreted and thereby it can authentically determine itself in the world.
Ključne riječi
pure subjectivity; inter-subjectivity; method; selfhood; Paul Ricœur; values; life
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224007
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Datum izdavanja:
6.3.2019.
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