Paul Ricœurs Suche nach einer Neubegründung der Menschenrechte und der Würde durch die Fähigkeiten und die Anwendung der phronèsis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25180/lj.v18i2.53Keywords:
Paul Ricoeur, human rights, dignity, capabilities, responsibility, ethics, phronesisAbstract
Paul Ricoeur's Search for a New Foundation of Human Rights and Dignity by Means of the Capabilities and his Application of phronesisThe aim of the following article is to reconstruct Paul Ricoeur's concepts of human rights and human dignity by exploring some little-known texts, and to exemplify how these concepts are connected to a specific philosophical conception of human being, which is grounded in a Dialectics between transcendence and incarnation, freedom and dependence, identity and difference, capability and fallibility (fragility). In doing so, I will argue that Ricoeur interprets human dignity, which he has never explicitly defined, through the prism of human capabilities, especially of the capability of being responsible. This interpretation allows him to take a differentiated position in the current bioethical debates on the rights of "potential persons" (Embrio) and to illustrate how the Aristotelian phronèsis can be used in (bio)ethical cases where decisions are difficult to take.
Downloads
References
Greisch, Jean. Fehlbarkeit und Fähigkeit. Die philosophische Anthropologie Paul Ricœurs. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2009.
Habermas, Jürgen. "Nicht die Natur verbietet das Klonen. Wir müssen selbst entscheiden", in Die Zeit, 19 Februar 1998, online: http://www.zeit.de/ 1998/09/klonen.txt.19980219.xml
Klein, Théo. "Le pardon et la dignité", in (Coll.), Le crime contre l'humanité : mesure de la responsa-bilité ? Paris : CERP, 1998, 119-127.
Morin, Edgar. Comment repenser l’humain? online: http://e-south.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/06/03/comment-repenser-lhumain-une-reflexion-dedgar-morin/.
Raymond, Jean-François de. "Les droits de l'homme : Une anti-idéologie", in ders. (éd.). Les enjeux des droits de l'homme. Paris : Librairie Larousse, 1988.
Ricœur, Paul. "Das Bild Gottes und das Epos des Menschen", in ders. Geschichte und Wahrheit. München: List Verlag, 1974, 124-147.
Ricœur, Paul. "L'antinomie de la réalité humaine et le problème de l'anthropologie philosophique", in ders. Anthropologie philosophique. Ecrits et conférences 3. Paris: Seuil, 2013, 21-49.
Ricœur, Paul. "Pour l'être humain du seul fait qu'il est humain", in Jean-François de Raymond (éd.). Les enjeux des droits de l'homme. Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1988, 233-237.
Ricœur, Paul. "Responsabilité : limitée ou illimitée ?" in (Coll.). Le crime contre l'humanité : mesure de la responsabilité ? Paris : CERP, 1998, 24-25.
Ricœur, Paul. Das Selbst als ein Anderer. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1996.
Ricœur, Paul. Die Fehlbarkeit des Menschen. Phänomenologie der Schuld I. Freiburg, München: Alber 1971.
Ricœur, Paul. Le volontaire et l'involontaire. Paris: Aubier, 1949.
s.a. . "Dignité", Encyclopédie de l'Agora, online: http://agora.qc.ca/dossiers/Dignite
s.a. . "Dignité", Wikipedia, online: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignit%C3%A9
s.a. Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte, online: http://www.un.org/depts/german/ menschen-rechte/aemr.pdf
Seifert, Josef. "Dimensionen und Quellen der Menschenwürde", in Walter Schweidler (Hrsg.). Men-schenleben – Menschenwürde: interdisziplinäres Symposium zur Bioethik. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2003, 51-92.
Valdrini, Patrick. "Eglise, peines et responsabilité", in (Coll.). Le crime contre l'humanité : mesure de la responsabilité ? Paris : CERP, 1998, 31-40.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2016 Yvanka B. Raynova
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
After acceptation of the paper, the author has to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement granting to Labyrinth and Axia Academic Publishers the exclusive copyrights for the online and printed editions, and to deal with reprint requests from third parties. On special occasions, articles and studies published in Labyrinth may be republished in textbooks or collective works of Axia Academic Publishers as well as translated and published in other languages. By submitting a paper to Labyrinth, you implicitely agree with these conditions.
