Freedom and Nature: The Voluntary and InvoluntaryThis volume, the first part of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy of the Will, is an eidetics, carried out within carefully imposed phenomenological brackets. It seeks to deal with the essential structure of man's being in the world, and so it suspends the distorting dimensions of existence, the bondage of passion, and the vision of innocence, to which Ricoeur returns in his later writings. The result is a conception of man as an incarnate Cogito, which can make the polar unity of subject and object intelligible and provide a basic continuity for the various aspects of inquiry into man's being-in-the-world. |
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Abstraction of the Fault | 20 |
Abstraction of Transcendence | 29 |
PURE DESCRIPTION OF DECIDING | 37 |
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abstraction action activity actual affective Alcmène already analysis anticipation appears aspect attention automatism basic becomes behavior bodily causal character choice Cogito concept condition consciousness consent constitutes cosmology death decision Descartes desire determination dualism effort eidetic emotion empirical ethology existence experience fact false dilemma fault feeling force freedom function Gabriel Marcel Gestalt psychology habit human Husserl Ibid idea imagination incarnate indetermination initial intention judgment knowledge limit living Maine de Biran Malebranche meaning mental mode motives move movement nature necessity negation ness object ontology organic Orphism pain paradox Paris passions Paul Ricoeur perceived perception phenomenology philosophy pleasure possible present principle problem psychoanalysis psychology pure description reasons reflection reflex relation remains representation respect reveals Ricoeur rience sciousness sense soul speak spontaneity Stoicism structure things thought tion traits Transcendence uncon unconscious understanding unity universe of discourse values voluntary