Algunos comentarios a ética y cultura, de Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

The article summarizes this work (Étique et Culture) by Ricoeur, the still living philosopher born in Valence (France) in 1913, founder of the philosophical hermeneutics known as the “philosophy of reflection” and wildly recognized as one of the greatest exponents of European hermeneutical philosophy.
As a disciple of Gabriel Marcel and Edmund Husserl, he has always distinguished himself for his endless dialogical attitude vis-à-vis the most relevant problems, authors and currents witnessed by him over the years of his long life. Like the neo-Kantian currents of the 40s, the Marxism and laicism influences, the ideologies and utopias of the 20th century. And structuralism, existentialism, the philosophy of language, post-modernism, the new urbanization, the place of faith in our modern society, and scientific and technological development. All of these subjects he treats in the book in the fashion that is so proper of him of finding bridges and exits - without hiding or denying the truth to succeed in doing it - where many others can merely see irreconcilable oppositions.