Hermeneutic Cogito? the Cartesian-reflexive heritage in the hermeneutic anthropology of Paul Ricœur
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https://doi.org/10.48075/aoristo.v9i1.37507Keywords:
Paul Ricoeur, Cogito, Hermeneutics of self, French reflexive philosophyAbstract
Starting from the debate opened by Jean Greich on the possibility of a “hermeneutic cogito”, an
analysis of the reception and evolution of the use of the notion of Cogito in the hermeneutic
philosophy of Paul Ricœ ur is carried out. Starting from the destruction of the concept in
Heideggerian hermeneutics and the Merleau-Pontian reception of both Dasein and the Cogito, its
understanding as an integral Cogito embodied in Ricœ ur's eidetic phenomenology of 1950 will be
shown in order to, subsequently, analyze the decisive influence of the use of the term in reflexive philosophy, which will determine the emptying of metaphysical pretensions of the concept. The crisis
of the Cogito and the analysis of the “broken” Cogito will show the necessary passage to a
hermeneutics of the self as a surpassing model and a decisive hermeneutic transformation of the
concept that replaces the certainty of the Cogito with the security and belief in the attestation of the
self, marking the reflexive task in the hermeneutics of the self as a task of interpretative deciphering
that is placed as the central axis of his philosophical anthropology.
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