Ricoeur argues paradoxically that the greatest evil originates from the illusion of rationality and attempts to defend a phenomenological account of power and responsibility on this relativistic basis. Rousseau, the Romantic Philosopher, is ide...

Grammatical moods or modes are connected to the ontological categories of judgement which in turn are connected to categories of existence. The work and the word are characterised phenomenologically by Ricoeur with reference to Marxism and Chri...

The eschatological hope for unity under the idea of God is the only abstract unity Ricoeur believes can be justified. He claims that both Aristotle and Kants rationalism is a search for unity whch is illusory. Marxism, one of the sources of tot...

Ricoeur subscries to a cynical view of our social institutions which he argues suffer from a bureaucratic disease which prevents the spreading of the Christian imperative "Love thy neighbour". He criticises the fact that there can sometimes be ...

Hegelian Phenomenological  Philosophy  and Marxist sociology , focussing on "facts" such as the workers do not own the means of production have replaced the Aristotelian concentration on "First Principles and Kantian A Priori Truths. ...